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A review by SWITCH.

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Written by SWITCH. on December 10, 2019

‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ (based off of Brian DeLeeuw’s novel ‘In This Way I Was Saved’) shares a lot of similarities with David Fincher's ‘Fight Club’, which followed a powerless office worker who happens to meet an assertive friend who helps him become more confident only for everything to get out of hand. I also kept thinking of Curtis Hanson’s underrated ‘Bad Influence’ with James Spader and Rob Lowe, Robert Mulligan’s ‘The Other’, Gregory Hoblit's 'Fallen', and Brad Anderson's 'Session 9'.

‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ is a slickly directed, spooky and surprisingly empathetic film about the monsters th... read the rest.

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

50%
Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on December 19, 2022

It's not original, it's not remarkable, but it was a pretty decent job considering the budget and people involved.

This is another one of those movies that I caught, by chance, starting on TV, and that I decided to watch. So I didn't have high expectations nor did I know exactly what I was going to find. When it was over, I can say that I reasonably liked what I saw: it intelligently explores the human mind and the dark side of the personality, it unfolds well until close to the end, and it is precisely the final part that disappointed me the most.

The script begins by introducing us... read the rest.

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