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The Cloverfield Paradox - (2018 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2548396/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80134431

The world is “running out of energy” somehow, and a space station is meant to create free energy somehow, but it ends up being more complicated than they realize.

Not highly recommended; a fair movie.



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Excursion - (2018 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9005662

A man sleeping in his clothes on a couch with a gun for some reason becomes embroiled in a time travel experiment by Soviets that keeps spawning closed time loops.

Although this movie works, even time travel can’t make communism work.



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Native - (2016 movie) image

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4443922/

Two members of an alien hive mind are sent on a mission to genocide a distant planet for colonization.

It’s not actually bad, but the massive spoiler at the start was unnecessary and damaging to the movie.



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Diminuendo - (2018 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5893906/
was diminuendomovie.com

A director’s dead girlfriend is vaguely re-created as a doll that acts her part in a movie.

It’s slow and interesting. Mostly-recommended, although this won’t make it into my collection because it’s particularly graphic.

features suicide



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Upgrade - (2018 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/
was upgrade.movie

A high-tech future takes away and then offers a victim a second chance at a normal life, except without his wife.

Great consistent tone, action, and a clear direction. Riveting all the way through; this is what a good movie is.



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Higher Power - (2018 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2924392/

A man is kidnapped and forced to unlock his super powers to save the world.

It essentially changes genre as though it’s trying to add a twist to things, but that doesn’t work. It’s a blend of a few other ideas, and it doesn’t execute them particularly well.



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