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Recent reviews

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  While I think there's Ghibli movies with better stories and characters than this, it's hard to think of one that has a better score. "The Great Collapse" is one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard in any movie.

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  Leprechaun 1993

  ★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  For a horror movie called "Leprechaun", the Leprechaun doesn't actually factor into a lot of the story of this movie.

Popular reviews

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  What Is a Woman? 2022

  ½ Watched 03 Jun 2022

  This "documentary" is incurious, unfunny, cruel, and weird about children. So in those ways, it's the perfect embodiment of The Right in America.

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  Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 31 May 2019 1

  I don't know what to tell ya. King of the Monsters's plot has all the same problems older Godzilla movies have; a paper thin story held together by flat human characters delivering cheese-tastic dialog. And like those older Godzilla movies, it doesn't matter even a little bit.

  The plot is there to get us to the different monster set pieces, and it does that job about as well as you could realistically ask for. The characters are barely even one…