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  Captain Marvel 2019

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Feb 2025

  I think it spins it wheels a little too much in the first act, feeling a bit too wobbly on its feet, and feeds us a bit too much "aw cool, its the 90s!" schtick. But around halfway, it locks in. Once our little band of heroes is together it clicks. The third act is an absolute joy. And the final, but poingnantly brief, confrontation is so precisely handled.

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  Ant-Man and the Wasp 2018

  ★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2025

  I think I like this more than the first? Idk. I feel like its place in the MCU hurts it during rewatches in order. It's funny, a bit funnier than the first but that's not to it's detriment. It works, I'm just not a fan as a whole I guess.

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Messy, and wild. Earnest but false. Funny, yet tragic. I kept muttering "this is ridiculous" throughout the entire runtime. Mikey Madison gives a performance worthy of all the recognition she's been getting.

  The entirety of the marriage certificate/confrontation with Toros sequence is the most masterfully executed sequence I've seen all year in film. The way Baker manages to shift the tone back and forth from uncomfortable tension to comedy to drama and back to comedy again is unbelievably brilliant. Remarkable stuff. Something for the ages.

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  Prometheus 2012

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Feb 2025

  Saw it probably 10 times in theaters (my own record). And initially just as an Alien prequel. Now, years later, it's just this really gorgeous, messy, and fascinating science fiction tale about creation that stands firmly as it's own thing. I adore it. What a swing for the fences. The two scripts (some say rewrites/touch ups but, c'mon) so strangely colliding to make this really weird but stunningly captivating experience. I hope someday Ridley does get around to finishing this trilogy, because it's so unique and compelling.

  Ah, Logan Marshall-Green, you should have had the world.