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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Starship Troopers meets Nausicaä without the ideological rigor of the former or the spiritual power of the latter. As a result it’s a super fun romp when it’s focused on character and a fairly flat send-up when it’s focused on ideas. There are a few minutes where it seems like the movie is going to center on a delightful love rectangle and I was as excited as the characters, only for the movie to give way to less inspired beats…

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  Watched 02 Mar 2025

  Nearly everything in this is a reminder of something better, which I guess makes it pretty on point. Probably doesn’t help that I watched this in chunks over like a year and a half on flights, but never having the time for it also feels spot on so shout out to my dm Delta airlines

Popular reviews

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  Judas and the Black Messiah 2021

  ★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2021 2

  There’s dishonesty in the idea that movies like this are good because they expose the masses to supposedly hidden histories.

  For one, “the masses” is just a euphemism for white moviegoers who find radical politics distasteful. In order to appeal to that audience, the content is distorted and obscured, further hiding the history that movies like this are supposed to be unearthing.

  Rather than revealing anything, the MLK treatment just perpetuates ignorance. When someone like Fred Hampton is made palatable to…

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  Watched 09 Oct 2023 1

  It was impossible to go into this movie without awareness of the criticism that it’s an empty, misconceived exploration of the banality of evil. Because of that, I felt committed to seeing if the movie might have something else going on. My search ended up being quite easy, because this movie isn’t about the banality of evil — despite even what its authors say.

  Because there’s nothing banal about living next door to Auschwitz, nothing ordinary about sharing a wall…