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Recent reviews

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jun 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  One little bit of foreshadowing I did not notice the first time: When Miles goes to evil Earth-42, and puts on that dimension’s Miles’ jacket, it’s dark green with a purple hood — a clue that this Earth’s Miles is the Prowler. (On Miles’ own Earth, his hoodie is black with a red hood — I.e. Spider-Man colors.)

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  Ocean's Twelve 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jun 2023

  Absolutely ludicrous to me that this movie got mediocre-to-bad reviews in 2004 when it is so obviously the best of the trilogy and one of the all-time great sequels — and still my favorite sequel ever about the making of sequels.

  “We’re forcing it.”
  “Yeah. We’re forcing it.”

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  Watched 09 Oct 2019 49

  Another Bong hit.

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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Apr 2023

  In the first 30 years of his existence, Rocket Raccoon appeared in a total of ten Marvel comics. Not ten different storylines, not ten different Rocket Raccoon series; ten individual issues period, mostly guest spots in other characters’ books. His profile increased somewhat in the mid-2000s when he became a member of the relaunched Guardians of the Galaxy, but not much. As Marvel properties go, to call him a D-lister might have been giving him to much credit. He had…