Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Elysium 2013

  ★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  The worst voice work of Jodie Foster’s career that wasn’t nominated for an Oscar

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  The Empire Strikes Back 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  John putting this score together in a month is prime Jordan/Lebron level stuff

Popular reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★½ Watched 29 Feb 2024 4

  Have you all lost your minds? Have the years of Marvel movies made you so starved for anything else that this is what we’ve landed on?

  This movie currently has a 4.6. A 4.6? A 4.6????

  That would put this ahead of any Spielberg movie. Ahead of any Bergman. Ahead of any Wong Kar-Wai. On par with Seven Samurai, The Godfather, etc. You get the idea here.

  I was a fan of the first one. I was there with what…

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  Babylon 2022

  ½ Watched 18 Feb 2023

  By the end I was so numbed to the experience that I started thinking maybe I didn’t hate this as much as I’d been thinking, then I remembered that the movie opened with a man being furiously pooped upon by an elephant.

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