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Recent reviews

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  Mad Max 1979

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Jun 2024

  The Road Warrior and Fury Road obviously deserve all the love and acclaim they get, but anyone who says the first Mad Max is middling or bad warrants a side-eye. It's always been a personal favorite, but I can't imagine not being impressed by George Miller's direction (aided hugely by Byron Kennedy), the low-budget ingenuity, the real sense of danger, the pre-apocalyptic vibes, the eccentric cast of characters, and the depiction of one man's inevitable dehumanization that hits so hard…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 May 2024

  My decision to not listen to any of this film's score until I saw it in theaters paid off beautifully. There's a lot of compliments I can pay the film but no one exaggerated one bit about how Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross killed it. Thrilling stuff

  Obviously the Oscars are a bit irrelevant and usually get a lot wrong, but it's criminal how overlooked this film is this year. As of February 23rd 2025 when I post this review, it's still my top movie of 2024.

Popular reviews

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  Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022

  ★★ Watched 18 Feb 2022

  2022's Texas Chainsaw Massacre may not have been made by Netflix, but it's easy to see why it was dumped there.

  Leatherface yeets hammers, bodies, and chainsaws in this installment that apes a lot from 2018's Halloween...though quality-wise it's closer to Halloween Kills. That means it clears the low bar of being better than Texas Chainsaw 3D while also being fairly on par with 2017's Leatherface (which would be the superior film if not for the 'which character is Leatherface'…

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  The Thing 1982

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Jun 2022 1

  Even though the aspect ratio was off & the screen wasn't wide enough, seeing John Carpenter's magnum opus—now 40 years old—in a movie theater with a great sound system hits different like you wouldn't believe. The notes of that main theme penetrate your brain and soul, and the sounds of the titular alien pierce your ears (in a good way) like never before.

  I remember going to Blockbuster as a very young child and seeing a copy of The Thing From…

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