Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2023

  In the sea of indistinguishable superhero movies and mind-numbing blockbusters that get released every year, D&D is a breath of fresh air. It's brightly lit, colorful, and full of imaginative action sequences and hilarious jokes that actually contain wit. I could go on about the gorgeous cinematography or the wonderful world-building (as someone who's never played the game), but what ultimately makes this film work are our group of lovable misfits. Each character is fully fleshed out and has their…

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  Air 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2023

  I don't think Air finds its footing until the moment Viola Davis steps onscreen, which is about 30 minutes into the film. Everything before that is kinda banal and routine, making me wonder what the hype from SXSW was all about, but after that, I slowly began to understand the film's charm. Air is a crowdpleaser through and through. Everything I felt watching this is exactly what I felt watching Argo and its rousing climax, and like most crowdpleasers, it's…

Popular reviews

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  Rat Race 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 31 May 2020

  So many iconic moments:

  YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A SQUIRREL.
  Barbie museum
  Nazi speech
  Amy Smart's helicopter rage
  Gloria Allred???
  Prairie dogging
  Busload of Lucys
  Monster truck of death
  Smash Mouth

  Why isn't Rat Race revered more? The ensemble cast is perfect (Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman are my favorite contestants), and I love how far Jerry Zucker is willing to go for a single joke, not in terms of offensiveness but big set pieces (re: Monster truck of death,…

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  WandaVision 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2021

  For 7 of its 9-episode season, WandaVision is easily the most creative and narratively exciting thing Marvel has done since Black Panther. The way the show explores grief in a sitcom backdrop is ingenious and compelling to me, and for the first time, we finally get a good sense of Wanda and Vision's relationship, something that was severely lacking from the MCU movies. It's unfortunate, then, that the last two episodes veer into more pedestrian and predictable territory, climaxing in…