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Marriage story (2019)
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Get out (2017)
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Jordan Peele’s directorial debut was a huge critical success
and has so many thrilling moments in this brilliant
Horror film, it features Daniel Kaluuya who portrays
an African-American man who is introduced into the
crazy world of his white girlfriend Allison williams, the
couple visits her family and took a turn for the worse.
With some great moments and performances, Get Out
really is a breath of fresh air in a genre that wasn’t too
hot at the time. Jordan Peele also used the film to show
a huge racism problem that still exists in the modern
world.
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver star in this drama
about a couple going through a divorce and a bitter
custody battle for their child, with all the boundaries
that stand in the way of a couple that were once deeply
in love. Throughout the story you slowly see the respect
they originally had for each other starting to deteriorate,
Noah Baumbach puts together an emotional
script, which is brilliantly performed by the two leads
previously mentioned, especially in a scene where the
two start off with a formal conversation to eventually
antagonising each other into spilling out everything they
truly think about each other.
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
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The Raid (2012)
Photo by the official website
The Raid is a film that slips under the radar compared
to the mainstream action movies, but Welsh director
Gareth Evans has crafted together an action classic that
will hold up to any films in the action genre, thanks to
it perfectly choreographed fight scenes and its intense
claustrophobic style. The movie stars Iko Uwais as Rama
a policeman who is trapped in an apartment building
and has to fight his way through a magnitude of bad
guys to stay alive in whatever way possible, which
opens up for some gruesome scenes. It’s quite a simple
story but by the end of it will leave you as the viewer
feeling blown away.
Guardians of the Galaxy was the most surprising MCU
movie of the decade. The characters were all pretty
much unknown to the general audience, until director
James Gunn got his hands on them and transformed
them into some of the most popular characters in the
MCU. James Gunn changed the style compared to previous
Marvel films by adding comedy and emphasising
on an amazing soundtrack in this cosmic action movie.
This has influenced others to do this considering it was
a big part of Taika Waititi Thor Ragnarok and the Russo
brothers avengers films.It features a group anti hero’s
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who come together to fight to save the Galaxy, despite
not liking each other they eventually create a great
chemistry as the film progresses. This amounts to some
hilarious scenes and also some emotional moments in
this amazing film. 28