Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024

  ★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  A few parts hit, but the animation is unforgivably mid

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  Jumanji: The Next Level 2019

  ★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I don’t understand how with pretty much the same cast and premise, this one could be so much worse than the charming first reboot. The writing fell off a cliff.

Popular reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Sep 2024

  The editing was at times a mess and the directorial voiceovers could be trite, but man when it hit it hit. A profoundly original and visually arresting movie; I’ll be thinking about the colosseum sequence for a long time.

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  BRATS 2024

  ★★½ Watched 13 Jun 2024

  Obviously it helped to have Andrew McCarthy directing in terms of getting all these interviews, but ultimately he was way too close to the subject to be introspective about what it all meant or why the Brat Pack mattered beyond his own psychological hang ups. Also way too much Malcolm Gladwell.

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