Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Creed III 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2023

  The moment Dame's entrance music came on everyone should have known what time it was- any dude locked up for 20 years just lifting weights and listening to Nipsey Hussle is not to be trifled with.

  Love that, unlike the brick houses playing the two lead roles, this movie is so lean. Stays away from overcomplicated side plots and just makes it a deep emotional brotherhood/rivalry rooted in what is honestly real. You get why these dudes would feel some…

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  Sideways 2004

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2023

  One more cute disaster
  Said, "I love you" twice
  Before you could even answer
  It's hard here in paradise

  Giamatti is terrific and the movie does not work without his specific brand of snobby sadsack, but my oh my how marvelous is Virginia Madsen in this. Her energy completely shifts the tenor of the movie in the moments she's in it, and you feel the imbalance when she's absent. Magical to see Payne in real time finding the right blend…

Popular reviews

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  The Last Airbender 2010

  ½ Rewatched 13 Jul 2020

  Hello darkness my old friend

  I watched The Last Airbender again

  By act two my friend was sleeping

  So bad it left me weeping

  And the mispronunciations that were planted in my brain

  Still cause pain

  Within the sound...of Ong

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  ★ Watched 12 Dec 2021 3

  McKay getting all these incredible movie stars together to make this is kinda like coming home from an intense workout and going for a refreshing bottle of water, only it tuns out the bottle is full of cheap tequila and causes an instantaneous feeling of complete repulsion.

  I thought Vice was the peak of condescending cinema and yet this somehow tops it, filled with the kind of pithy snark that is serving nothing approaching anything genuine or interesting. It's not…