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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 May 2023

  Absolutely shattered me. I haven’t had this profound an emotional experience in a movie theater in a long, long time. The Guardians movies have always been special to me because of how much they love these characters and Volume 3 sends these beautiful, lovable morons out on the highest of notes. There is so much I want to say, so many wonderful moments to call out and maybe some nitpicks, too. But I’m too emotionally exhausted to get into the…

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Apr 2023

  Overlong, repetitive, obtuse and juvenile. 

  I loved it. Can’t wait to watch it again.

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  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

  ★½ Watched 23 May 2023

  Trying to think of a nicer word than "embarrassing." Horrendously ugly, narratively inept and just plain boring. I wanted to watch this because I heard it sucked and I wanted to make fun of it but it's not even fun in that way. I couldn't get through it and ended up finishing it on my phone at work because it was a slow, boring day.

  It's clear that they were influenced by the Star Wars prequels design-wise. I guess they…

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  The Birdcage 1996

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 May 2023

  A frequently sad yet consistently hilarious movie about the lengths you’ll go for your shithead kid.

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2021

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

  **MAJOR SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY**

  On paper, this movie should not work. There is just way too much shit going on. And yet, this is so emotionally satisfying in a way my little 2000s boy heart wasn’t expecting. 

  It has all the callbacks you could ask for (shoutout to the fine people subscribed to r/raimimemes), the action is a little more dynamic than Homecoming and Far From Home, and by the end Holland’s version is FINALLY a proper Spider-Man: broken, poor, etc.…

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Oct 2021

  I’m overwhelmed. As a fan of the book, I couldn’t ask for much more from an adaptation of the first half of Dune. It is a lot of table-setting, but it creates the world(s) of Dune in such an incredibly tangible way and establishes the pieces that will be at play in Part 2 (fingers crossed). It’s half a movie, yes, but it’s half of a damn good movie. This is all in addition to being a technical marvel in every way you can think of. My eyes, ears and brain all hurt and it feels good, man.