When your “New York” crime thriller is filmed in Saskatchewan on a giant LED wall… and still looks faker than Dogville. Hostile Takeover (2025): killing authenticity one pixel at a time.
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https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/hostile-takeover/

Contraband (2012) is a heist that delivers wooden performances and zero consequences. Ribisi steals every scene with his wild menace, while Wahlberg’s stuck playing “slightly more clenched jaw.” Crime pays, apparently — as long as it’s family business.
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https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/when-crime-pays-and-talent-wastes-the-case-of-contraband/

The Salt Path (2024) seems destined to join Bloodsport and Sleepers in the bullshit memoir pantheon — and, more specifically, the ‘bullshit soul-searching hike’ subgenre alongside A Walk in the Woods.
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https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/the-salt-path-miles-of-misery-and-manufactured-meaning/