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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ★★ Watched by Mark Garrett 16 Dec 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The jokes are working extra hard to compensate for Jon Watts' terrible direction. Willem Dafoe is great, but if the actors could salvage these things then Garfield's films wouldn't be treated as in need of such redemption here

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  Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021

  ★★★ Watched by Mark Garrett 17 Nov 2021

  A huge improvement on the original but really takes the smashing your action figures together fights to a new level

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  Halloween II 2009

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Mark Garrett 10 Oct 2014 1

  This is still haunting me a day after re-watching. It's always Brad Dourif's screaming that flashes in my memory, or a large, pastel field with a black giant tracing across it; his sudden appearance and predatory, hawk-dive into relentlessness. Taylor-Compton's maligned performance registers as what it is: the portrayal of a wreck of a person, her innards so carved out that it could only inevitably be filled by darkness. Like a long epilogue to the first film, by re-stating their…

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  Monkeyshines, No. 2 1890

  ★★★ Watched by Mark Garrett 02 Feb 2014

  The character was much more developed this time