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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006

★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Nov, 2020 5

To this day I legitimately cannot comprehend how one of the greatest action adventure blockbusters of the 21st century has a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes when critics hand out positive reviews to every single MCU movie like candy on Halloween.
Thor 2011

★★½ Rewatched 13 Feb, 2019

WHEN YOU USE THIS MANY DUTCH ANGLES IT FEELS LIKE YOU ARE SHOUTING AT ME THROUGH CINEMATIC LANGUAGE, KIND OF LIKE USING ALL CAPS TO COMMUNICATE A POINT THAT WOULD MEAN THE EXACT SAME THING IF IT WERE LOWERCASE.

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Doubt 2008

★★★½ Watched 13 Jan, 2021 2

Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Meryl Streep.
Amy Adams.
Viola Davis.
That’s pretty much all you need to know about this movie. One of the best performance showcases I’ve seen. A difficult watch without easy answers, but I think one that has truth in the midst of doubt none the less.
After Hours 1985

★★★★ Watched 12 Jan, 2021

guys they made a home alone origin story about how kevin mccallister’s parents met each other and it’s absolutely BONKERS

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Noelle 2019

★★½ Watched 12 Nov, 2019 1

santa is a woman by ariana grande
Bad Times at the El Royale 2018

★★★ Rewatched 12 Jan, 2021

Rewatched hoping to prove my initial reaction wrong, only to have it reaffirmed. How often does a movie have a really solid second act, but a first and third act that just don’t really do the trick? Almost never, which is why the film is so frustrating. Pretty much everything that’s interesting to me here—the tension, the themes of duality, the characters paths crossing—happens in the second act. The first and third act, however, spend too much time on fleshing…