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Tim Brayton

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Darkman (1990) 80% 4/5 EDIT “That whole origin story is a bundle of clichés, and Raimi and Darkman know it; the whole film has a tongue-in-cheek energy to go along with its dark cinematography by Bill Bope.” – Alternate Ending Aug 23, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% 4/5 EDIT “It's obvious that a lot of care went into RotLD, which takes place in an unusually well-realised world; but the detail of the mise en scène is never stressed or insisted upon. It just is.” – Alternate Ending Aug 6, 2025 Full Review The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974) 4/5 EDIT “One of the most tense, and delectably unfathomable Italian horror films ever made.” – Alternate Ending Jun 1, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 2.5/5 EDIT “To give the film its due credit, there is a positive side to this whirlwind of half-formed notions that the film tries to maintain as a structured narrative: it is never boring.” – Alternate Ending Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Hundreds of Beavers (2022) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A movie that just has such a good mood, enough to make it feel like one would have to be a real grouch not to laugh along with its ongoing rush of surreal gags, its flair for stagey artifice, its constant mugging.” – Alternate Ending Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 3.5/5 EDIT “No matter how grinding and dull the story gets, we are, genuinely, never more than about 45 seconds away from some eye-popping visual.” – Alternate Ending Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Day of the Outlaw (1959) 100% 4/5 EDIT “An unusually demanding and complicated and unsettling film for what isn't technically a B-Western, though it has a family resemblance.” – Alternate Ending Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “While we can argue over whether Corbet misses many of the swings he takes, it's not like anybody else right now is even taking those swings in the first place.” – Alternate Ending Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% 4.5/5 EDIT “If we're going to have a comfortably overfamiliar tale told yet again, the least the storytellers can do is bring a great deal of quality.” – Alternate Ending Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% 1/5 EDIT “The prequel to one of the most aesthetically barren major films of the last ten years was always going to have a pretty hard time being anything but aesthetically barren in its own right.” – Alternate Ending Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Ticket of No Return (1979) 4/5 EDIT “It isn't really about characterization, so much as about Berlin as an aesthetic experience and a drunken bender as a mood rather than a physical event.” – Alternate Ending Feb 13, 2025 Full Review A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A great piece of alchemy, in which everything we learn makes the film much sadder than it seemed when it was a jumpy horror film, but also in a way much more horrific.” – Alternate Ending Feb 13, 2025 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) 49% 3/5 EDIT “It's still closer to being a real movie than the three Hobbits, I'll give it that much.” – Alternate Ending Jan 13, 2025 Full Review The Adventures of the American Rabbit (1986) 2.5/5 EDIT “Feels both undercooked and made from the wrong ingredients in the first place. But it’s very unusual, and unusual in a memorable, intriguing way.” – Alternate Ending Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% 2/5 EDIT “The editing is sloppy and the cinematography, lighting, and grading are utterly incomprehensible.” – Alternate Ending Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Reservoir Dogs (1992) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film's biggest single problem is that the director learned so much from making it that he went on to keep making things that were better.” – Alternate Ending Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% 4.5/5 EDIT “Exceptionally deft control of mood and the erratic psychology of one of God's most unpredictable creatures, a twelve-year-old girl.” – Alternate Ending Dec 29, 2024 Full Review Odd Obsession (1959) 73% 4/5 EDIT “It's a bit exhausting to watch, and if the point of the movie is to bring our attention to our aging bodies' inability to keep up, it succeeds.” – Alternate Ending Dec 29, 2024 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 60% 2/5 EDIT “There is at no point any real reason to care about what's happening or what the stakes are.” – Alternate Ending Dec 29, 2024 Full Review Barbarella (1968) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Barbarella is a weird missive from the deep dark depths of the '60s era, with a villain that amounts to a villainous, evil-eating lava lamp, and the inside of a spaceship in which literally every single surface is covered in brown shag. ” – Alternate Ending Dec 12, 2024 Full Review C Me Dance (2009) 0% 0.5/5 EDIT “This is <i>The Room</i> of evangelical Christian movies. This is what it would look like if legendary anti-filmmaker Neil Breen was a man of faith and not a Las Vegas real estate investor.” – Alternate Ending Nov 23, 2024 Full Review Italian Spiderman (2007) 3.5/5 EDIT “Just as likely to be good at serving as a gateway drug to enjoying the film's it's parodying as it requires that you already enjoy them before going into it.” – Alternate Ending Nov 23, 2024 Full Review Valmont (1989) 50% 3.5/5 EDIT “A humane movie about some of the most inhumane people in literary history; in its own way, that's a pretty remarkable achievement, though it never quite manages to argue why it's taking this approach.” – Alternate Ending Nov 23, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% 4.5/5 EDIT “The movie is a huge spectacle, and it keeps getting bigger as it goes along, but what's great is that it's never just indulging for the sake of it.” – Alternate Ending Nov 23, 2024 Full Review The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) 95% 4/5 EDIT “[Not] as good as the sum total of its best moments, but those moments are really nothing less than sublime.” – Alternate Ending Nov 23, 2024 Full Review
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