Favorite films

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  We like a nice little mid-budget movie in this household. Full of fridge logic, script tropes, and iffy direction, yes, but it has charms to stand on. It's a disarmingly sweet movie at times, the concept is grotesquely fun, and the cast seems genuinely into it.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Added

  Back to the Bonghive! Tragically this is his worst movie that I've seen. (Barking Dogs and Okja I've yet to get to.) Thankfully even a mid hit from the Bong is still a good sight more interesting than most movies in the world. Robert Pattison slays it. Most of the other cast does not.

  The little things are better than the big picture here. I like the touches of "Mar-a-Lago face" on Mark Ruffalo and Toni Colette, more subtle than…

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2023

  Whoah! It's hard to crack my Godzilla top five, but I believe this did it. It's the most emotionally involving and character driven since the original, and possibly surpasses it in that regard. This is less raw and more sentimental, but there's still plenty of grit here and I think the balance is right.

  Vicious, unsympathetic Godzilla is not my favorite, but it's done well here. I was worried that this would be even more nationalist than Shin Godzilla, but…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2024

  The first "a woman's erotic coming of age journey" movie that doesn't immediately out you as a pervert- what a time to be alive!

  But seriously, it tells that story excellently and authentically, all wrapped up in a Frankenstein-cum-Willy Wonka aesthetic that is enrapturing. Everyone is firing on all cylinders, but special accolades for Emma Stone's totally seamless portrayal of an evolution from brain injury monster to eloquent and sharp woman of the house. And for Mark Ruffalo's incredibly funny…

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