Sleeper Awakened

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

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WRATH OF SILENCE

September 10, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 7, ACTION, CRIME, FOREIGN, DRAMA, W

“Its action is vital and naturalistic”

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Yukun Xin, Wu Jiang, Yang Song, Wenkang Yuan
2018, 7, ACTION, CRIME, FOREIGN, DRAMA, W
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ONE MUST FALL (2018)

August 04, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 3, COMEDY, HORROR, O

“Supposedly a horror comedy, but it lacked being either”

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Antonio Pantoja, Julie Streble, Barry Piacente, Andrew Yackel
2018, 3, COMEDY, HORROR, O
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THE AXIOM (2018)

June 19, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 3, FANTASY, HORROR

“not finessed to creation the way the imagination might have promised”

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Nicholas Woods, Hattie Smith, Zac Titus, Nicole Dambro, Michael Peter Harrison, Taylor Flowers, William Kircher
2018, 3, FANTASY, HORROR
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THE ODDS (2018)

May 11, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 4, HORROR, O

“significantly sleazy and overly sadistic, but what does one expect in a movie about such things”

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Bob Giordano, Abbi Butler, James J. Fuertes, Katie Gunn
2018, 4, HORROR, O

BLACK SITE (2018)

April 29, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, ACTION, B, SCIENCE FICTION

“It is like a live action comic book that ticks a lot of my boxes.”

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Tom Paton, Sophia Del Pizzo, Jessica-Jane Stafford, Lauren Ashley Carter, Bentley Kalu, Kris Johnson, Samantha Schitzler
2018, 5, ACTION, B, SCIENCE FICTION
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BRAID (2018)

April 22, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 4, B, THRILLER

“You are Alice tumbling down the hole into an obtuse smorgasbord of oddity and ostentatiousness”

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Mitzi Peirone, Madeline Brewster, Imogen Waterhouse, Sarah Hey, Scott Cohen
2018, 4, B, THRILLER
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BURNING (2018)

March 23, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, B, DRAMA, FOREIGN

“it didn’t maintain the thrill when it needed it the most”

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Chang-dong Lee, Ah-In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun, Soo-Kyung Kim
2018, 6, B, DRAMA, FOREIGN
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A BLUEBIRD IN MY HEART (2018)

February 14, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 5, 2018, B, DRAMA, FOREIGN

“Roland Møller - I see him as a Danish Idris Elba. There is a gravitas, physicality, and steely allure to him”

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Roland Møller, Jérémie Guez, Lola Le Lann, Veerle Baetens, Lubna Azabal
5, 2018, B, DRAMA, FOREIGN
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WILD ROSE (2018)

January 09, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, COMEDY, DRAMA, MUSICAL, W

“breathes life into hardened lungs”

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Tom Harper, Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, James Harkness, Sophie Okonedo
2018, 5, COMEDY, DRAMA, MUSICAL, W
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HER SMELL (2018)

January 07, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, DRAMA, H, MUSICAL

“Brilliant, vulnerable and caustic performance by Moss”

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Alex Ross Perry, Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Amber Heard
2018, 6, DRAMA, H, MUSICAL
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GENERAL MAGIC (2018)

January 04, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 7, DOCUMENTARY, G

“enjoy this tech ride and see where our now ubiquitous technology came from”

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Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude
2018, 7, DOCUMENTARY, G
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HIGH LIFE (2018)

November 13, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, DRAMA, H, SCIENCE FICTION

“Quite interesting, but also more of a conundrum than a mysterious journey.”

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Claire Denis, Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth
2018, 5, DRAMA, H, SCIENCE FICTION
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ST. AGATHA (2018)

October 28, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 4, HORROR, S, THRILLER

“improperly weighted slow descent down a snowy hill of discomfort and disengagement”

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Darren Lynn Bousman, Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson, Lindsay Seim
2018, 4, HORROR, S, THRILLER
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WELCOME TO MERCY (2018)

October 26, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 4, DRAMA, HORROR, W

“Such potential for this one, but the true mercy was that this film didn’t last too long”

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Tommy Bertelsen, Lily Newmark, Eileen Davies, Kristein Ruhlin
2018, 4, DRAMA, HORROR, W
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WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE (2018)

October 23, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, HORROR, THRILLER, W

“It isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it is retreading the tires a bit”

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Colin Minihan, Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac
2018, 6, HORROR, THRILLER, W
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LET THE CORPSES TAN (2018)

September 30, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, FOREIGN, L, THRILLER

“beautiful visions of carnal pleasures and elicit violence groggily shimmy through your perception”:

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Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Michelangelo Marchese, Pierre Nisse, Marc Barbé
2018, 6, FOREIGN, L, THRILLER
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HOTEL ARTEMIS (2018)

August 19, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, ACTION, CRIME, DRAMA, H, SCIENCE FICTION

“A sci-fi stage play with some noirish elements and a fun anti-hero panache”

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Drew Pearce, Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista
2018, 5, ACTION, CRIME, DRAMA, H, SCIENCE FICTION
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A SIMPLE FAVOR (2018)

August 14, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 3, COMEDY, DRAMA, S

“we get a bloated, try hard of a monstrosity that leaves no one satisfied”

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Paul Feig, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Anna Kendrick
2018, 3, COMEDY, DRAMA, S
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ASH IS THE PUREST WHITE (2018)

August 09, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 6, A, CRIME, DRAMA, FOREIGN, ROMANCE

“A film that rumbles and smolders beneath the surface”

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Zhangke Jia, Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi'nan Diao
2018, 6, A, CRIME, DRAMA, FOREIGN, ROMANCE
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FAST COLOR (2018)

July 17, 2019 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, DRAMA, F, SCIENCE FICTION

“familial experience of 3 generations of black women with powers, as told in a languid and oddly soulful way”

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Julia Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Strathairn, Lorraine Toussaint, Christopher Denham, Saniyya Sidney
2018, 5, DRAMA, F, SCIENCE FICTION
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