Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★½ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  I really did not hate this and was entertained, but at the same time I really wish it had come together more cohesively. There are some interesting ideas that this movie comes really close to chewing on — there is a great conversation between Ross and Sam where you get the sense of what a Black Cap is up against after securing his title — but it never really gets there. I was left with the feeling that most of…

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  Captain America: Civil War 2016

  ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Feb 2025

  “Analyze his attack patterns” he is literally just alternating fists and punching you. It’s hard to believe these movies came out almost ten years ago and at the same time going back to them makes me realize that they’re still fun, idgaf! Someday Marvel will do something with interesting emotional beats and the consequences and contradictions of superheroism again, surely.

Popular reviews

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  Bandstand 2018

  ★★★★★ Added

  don't even get me started on this, the list of reasons I love it starts with the opening drums and ends with the bow music and includes every part in between

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Apr 2024 2

  Happy to report that we have the movie of the summer, via throuple, slo-mo, sports unis, people wearing each other’s clothes, and a techno soundtrack to run a marathon to. Super cool shots and symmetry, finely-tuned tension in each scene, great performances by the core three and ultimately a super interesting gravity between them. That scoot of the stool before Art sat down with the churros was diabolical. Really loved it!