Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2025

  Peak Hunger Games. Still all these years later, it is so enticing and such an entertaining story. Even after reading the book a ton and seeing the film so many times, I'm still on the edge of my seat, wondering what will happen.
  The wide screen to full screen transition into the arena is still SO COOL almost 12 years later.
  Ever since reading the book, Cinna is still one of my favorite characters as he is one of the…

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jan 2025

  watched this with my brother who hasn't read the book. on a rewatch, It did seem a little quick. I think it could have used some more runtime and expanding a bit. I wouldn't want a part 2 situation but it could have been a little bit longer. I think having read the book multiple times, my brain fills in the gaps of the movie. That said, I still think the movie holds up really well and Rachel Ziegler is…

Popular reviews

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2024 2

  We Live in Time asks if it's selfish to want to extend someone's life, yet removing some of their autonomy in doing so? My father had Parkinson's disease. He would often accidentally fall and hurt himself. I was terrified that one day he'd hurt himself to the point of dying. I came home from school once with an ambulance with it's flashing lights on in my driveway. I basically ran off the bus and pushed the paramedics out of the…

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  Maestro 2023

  ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2024

  Maestro is a very human story about someone who feels overwhelmed with how much he feels as though he has to do, while at the same time feeling a parallel weight of feeling like they're not doing enough. That aspect of the film is very relatable. Despite this not being the longest film of the Best Picture noms, it did feel long. It didn't bore me completely and I did enjoy my time, but it wasn't anything special either. Unless…