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This is a great movie, with lots of chuckles, laughs, surprises, originality and a big heart, that leaves the audience totally satisfied.

I doubted in the first 10 minutes whether this movie was going to be my thing, but once he meets his love it's all systems go. Kyle Gallner is becoming one of my favorite actors able to mix drama and comedy whenever called. Emily Skeggs (mainly a stage actress) is an absolute revelation and you fall in love with her character right away. The entire supporting cast is up to the task delivering lots of laughs.

To top it all off the movie has a couple of original songs, incorporated into the script, worthy of your play list. 8/10.

This is such a fun film. I wasn't expecting much because I have not been much of a Nick Cage fun. The middle of his career was a bunch of meaningless movies that no longer gave me reason to watch his work, but his career has taken a positive turn lately, starting with Pig and now Renfield. This movie is great campy fun, lots of gore handled with such expertise that you are laughing YAO while people are being ripped apart. Cage's performance is one of his bests, every muscle on his face is used underneath the make up to create great moments of chuckling comedy, even though it is Ben Schwartz character that had me laughing the most. Nicholas Hoult gives another solid performance reminding and although some people weren't that please with Awkwafina I think that she gives us a quirky performance that matches the tone of the movie perfectly. The movie breezes by at 93 min, leaving wanting more rather than than being bored. Highly recommended. 7.8/10.

This is one of the saddest documentaries I've ever watched and it is brutal in its depiction of events and it will leave its mark on you. I actually wish I'd never seen it because the level of evil perpetrated here is incomprehensible. How a woman this smart, caring and beautiful had to live this hellish existence and no one took action is soul crushing. I am not sure how the girl's mother shows her face here, I would move to another country, AND hide under a rock, people like this should not be allowed to procreate or care for children. This is why abortion needs to be protected, because high odds are that an unwanted child in the hands of incapable and evil adults is destined to become a monster (the perpetrator) or a victim condemn to a hellish existence and the cycle repeats itself from here until eternity.

As for 'the girl', what a beautiful soul, what a relentless loving creature, she lived her best life under horrendous circumstances, a bright star extinguished by the brutality of an evil cockroach 8/10.