Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Little Mermaid 2023

  ★★ Watched 28 May 2023

  Jonah-hauer King - good
  Javier Bardem - bad 
  Halle Bailey - GOOD
  Melissa McCarthy - good but occasionally bad
  Noma Dumezweni - good
  Awkwafina - BAD
  Jacob Tremblay - poor unfortunate soul 
  Daveed Diggs - hate crime?

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  Fast X 2023

  ★★ Watched 21 May 2023

  I’ve had enough family.

Popular reviews

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  RRR 2022

  Watched 02 Apr 2022 6

  I can’t rate this movie. Nor can I like it as a whole. 

  Let’s start. Every aspect of filmmaking? Undeniably epic. Set-pieces unlike anything we’ve seen before. Well-paced. Two movie stars at the top of their game shredding every scene they’re in. Wonderful thematic reasonance between their camaraderie. Isolated story-wise it’s a super interesting screenplay. all of this works! 

  However,
  This is right wing propaganda on every level, to the point that it recreates an incredibly islamophobic incident in an…

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  Varisu 2023

  ★ Watched 12 Jan 2023 5

  for all it’s hypocrisy intact, I am grateful that movie star culture is still alive and well. There is a singular joy in exclusively and collectively watching a charismatic performer on a big screen create something that is soon to be iconic cultural lexicon. And so every time a new one of these come along, it’s often more culturally festive than the festival it attaches itself to, and I anticipate it dearly, no matter what rote, preachy plot I’m subjected…