What movies have you seen recently?

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The Power of the Dog.

Excellent.
Wouldnt be surprised if it wins an oscar, or several.

The Batman.

Pattison might have been a sucky vampire, but he makes a fantastic Batman! Great performances by everyone: Jeremy Wright as Commissioner Gordon, Andy Cerkis as Alfred, Collin Farrell is unrecognizable as the Penguin, Zoe Kravitz (spelling?) as Cat Woman, and Paul Dano as the Riddler (he's not funny loony like Jim Carrey, but scary loony). Batman is two years into the job trying to save an unsavable Gotham, when the mysterious Riddler begins a terror campaign against the city's corrupt law enforcement and political establishment, leaving Batman wondering if these people don't deserve what's happening to them. Professional thief Selena Kyle, the Cat Woman, is carrying on her own war against the Gotham mob, which turns out to be tied to the very same corruption that had spurred on both Batman and the Riddler. Bruce Wayne learns dark secrets about his own family. Very dark and labyrinthine story. Very recommended. A certain Gotham supervillain appears at the movie's conclusion in Arkham asylum.

jack reacher
Ok

The Killers (1946)

The ninth and final item in the 'Film Noir' box set. Stars Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in a robbery and double crossing plot that thankfully isn't that difficult to follow. You'll find the usual superlatives and so on in reviews of this, 'quintessential', 'iconic', 'classic', etc, and to be fair, it's a lot better than most of the other Noirs I've seen, but I'd probably give it around 7.5 out of 10.

These films are bloody hard work on the whole. Very dated in their style and content (and this from someone who can't watch anything made in the last 30-40 years), ridiculously complex, confusing, contrived and unlikely plots, too many horrible, boring and and annoying characters, etc.....I did very much like 'Double Indemnity', and both the above film and 'Out Of The Past' were decent efforts, but you'd have to pay me a lot of money to watch any of the others again.

Orphan
very good.

The Hunted

The knife fighting sucks for what it intends to depict (along with other things involving such), but it's just a movie so I won't be too hard on it. I liked it.