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Get Out
A weekend with his girlfriend's parents goes wrong very slowly. Directed by Jordan Peele, released 2017.
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Whiplash
A drummer and a teacher who thinks cruelty produces greatness. Directed by Damien Chazelle, released 2014.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
A laundromat owner is audited, and also has to save every universe. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, released 2022.
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About this site
This site is a film reference and review archive. Every film page carries a plot summary, a signed review, a rating, the release date, the director and the principal cast. Films are added when they have had a public release; unreleased titles are not listed.
Who writes it
Reviews are written by the editorial team and signed. Plot summaries are factual and written separately from the review, so a summary never argues a position.
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How we rate films
Every film page shows a rating out of 10 with one decimal place.
What the number means
The rating is the reviewer's own score, not an average of readers and not imported from another site. It is set when the review is published and is not adjusted afterwards, even when a film's reputation changes.
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Editorial policy
This page states how reviews are commissioned, written and corrected.
Independence
Reviewers are not paid by studios, distributors or streaming services. Press screenings, screeners and festival accreditation are accepted; travel and accommodation paid for by a distributor are declined. Any remaining relationship between a reviewer and a film is disclosed in the review itself.
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Spoiler policy
Reviews avoid spoilers for the first four weeks after a film's general release.
What counts as a spoiler
Anything that a viewer could not reasonably expect from the trailer or the premise: the identity of a killer, a death, a twist, or the ending. The existence of a twist is itself treated as a spoiler.
Plot summaries
Plot summaries describe the setup and the first act only. They are written to be safe to read before watching. Where a summary has to mention a later event to make sense at all, the page carries a spoiler warning above it.
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Submit a review
We take pitches from writers who are not on staff.
How to pitch
Send a single paragraph describing the film and the argument you want to make, plus two links to published work, to pitches@example.com. Do not send a finished review; we commission from pitches.
What we are looking for
A specific argument about one film. We do not commission unfocused round-ups, ranked lists, or reviews of films that have been out for more than a year unless there is a reason now.
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Content warnings and age ratings
Film pages do not carry national age certificates, because they differ by country and change over time.
What we do instead
Where a film contains material a viewer might want warning about — sexual violence, suicide, child harm, sustained animal cruelty, or flashing imagery that can trigger seizures — the review states it plainly in the last paragraph, under the heading "Warnings".
Flashing imagery
Films known to contain sequences that can trigger photosensitive epilepsy are flagged whether or not the effect is severe.