Sleeper Awakened

WITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.

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UNCHARTED (2022)

May 19, 2022 by Jacob Nelson in 2022, 4, ACTION, U

“rides its stupidity like a sled down a DaVinci Code bunny slope to a goofy smirk”

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Ruben Fleischer, Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Tat Gabrielle, Pilou Asbæk
2022, 4, ACTION, U
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OVERLORD (2018)

July 15, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, ACTION, HORROR, O, SCIENCE FICTION, WAR, ZOMBIE

A definitive “not bad but actually pretty good” film

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Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk, John Magaro
2018, 5, ACTION, HORROR, O, SCIENCE FICTION, WAR, ZOMBIE
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GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017)

May 07, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 4, ACTION, COMIC BOOK, G, SCIENCE FICTION
"So much flavor and beauty, but it asked the wrong questions."
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Rupert Sanders, Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, MIchael Wincott
2017, 4, ACTION, COMIC BOOK, G, SCIENCE FICTION
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THE GREAT WALL (2016)

January 12, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 2, ACTION, G, FANTASY
"Matt Damon numbly hits his marks and states his inane dialogue, unable to breathe anything into this void of tale."
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Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Pilou Asbæk
2016, 2, ACTION, G, FANTASY
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A WAR (KRIGEN) (2015)

February 19, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 6, DRAMA, FOREIGN, W, WAR, Oscars 2016
" I saw the walking talking skeleton of a grippingly intense military quagmire, but none of the guts"
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Tobias Lindholm, Pilou Asbæk, Dar Salim
2015, 6, DRAMA, FOREIGN, W, WAR, Oscars 2016
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