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Recent reviews

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  Andy Hardy's Double Life 1942

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Brisk entry with potentially dark undercurrents: Andy's sister teaches him about negging in exchange for his assistance smoothing things over between her alcoholic, drunk-driving boyfriend and judge dad. All's well that ends well, as the boyfriend being forced to use a bicycle helps Andy crack a difficult case for his father. As usual, Andy is a Tex Avery wolf and slut, falling instantly in love with the psychology major friend (Esther Williams, who come to think of it does get…

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  Heretic 2024

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Nauseatingly fun but kind of hollow, mostly because it keeps moving the goal posts. (It has to, I suppose, having bitten off more than one A24 movie can chew.) Uncannily captures the feeling of going to a British person's house, though, and I really love that mind-bender of an overhead shot near the end.

Popular reviews

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  Failure to Launch 2006

  ★★ Watched 29 May 2018 1

  Kathy Bates has this beautiful moment at the end of the film where she worries about living alone with her husband of 35+ years for the first time in decades "because what if he doesn't like me?" It made me angry that I'd spent the last 100 minutes watching this movie instead of that one.

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  Star Trek Into Darkness 2013

  ½ Watched 16 May 2013 20

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.