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Do you enjoy utterly delightful buddy movies? Then may I recommend the superlative Wolfs, which has everything you’re looking for: amazing enemies-to-friends chemistry, a plot more complex than you expect, and of course two superstars doing wonderful work. Good direction. Great dialogue and script.

Do you enjoy genuinely frightening ghost stories with an amazing main character, excellent direction, and great production? Then may I recommend Oddity, which produced an ear-splitting middle-of-the-day scream from someone next to me that was, I think, the loudest scream from fright I’ve heard from them, and an alarmed “oh god!” from me—from a separate incident. Well done. It’s cozy, tense, and a perfect haunted...
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Do you enjoy buddy spy action movies with zero surprises? Then may I recommend The Union, which has nothing in particular to recommend it—but nothing to not recommend it, you know? It’s exactly what it says on the tin and paints in all the numbers without going outside the lines. Good budget.

Do you enjoy slashers filmed like no other? Then may I recommend In A Violent Nature, which has a plain simple slasher plot, but uniquely maintains tension throughout just in the way it’s filmed. You should watch it just to experience it.

As a slasher, it’s fine, with super horrific kills and all. But really the direction is the star of the show.

Do you enjoy movies that require an unreasonable amount of suspension of disbelief? Then may I recommend The Watchers, which has an interesting tease of a premise to trick you into watching a tale that’s nonsense when it isn’t ridiculous.

Looks great tho, w/ high production value & cinematography.

Do you enjoy movies that emphasize the wrong things? Then may I recommend The Deliverance, which spends too long building characters who just turn out to be surprisingly stereotypical, then is perfunctory on the most generic demon from central casting, all to end awkwardly.

Great acting tho, fwiw.

Do you enjoy buddy adventure movies? Then may I recommend The Rundown, from 2003. Entirely standard fare plot-wise, but with Christopher Walken as the villain, oddly enough, and also with some impressive wire work and impressive stunt work. Good light entertainment. 🙂

Do you enjoy vehicle movies—meaning movies that are mere vehicles to see two comedic actors do their thing over a thin premise? Then may I recommend Jackpot!, which is nothing but fight scenes with one liners. I mean almost literally nothing but that. Given that, it’s hilarious in places, funny in others, and a treat to watch these two.

Stay, of course, for the blooper...
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Do you enjoy intense well crafted, well acted, sci-fi action thrillers with a touch of body horror whose final act is ridiculously tense? Then may I recommend Alien: Romulus, which indeed is the best Alien since Aliens. They paid attention and got it right. We saw in IMAX and Jesus the spectacle and beauty. See in any theater if you can.