Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Twisters 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Aug 2024

  Fun! Entertaining! Glen Powell!

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jun 2024 1

  THANK YOU, LUCA 😩😫😩. 

  Nothing I could say could ever be enough. This movie was everything- it has that je ne sais quoi. Actually, it has that je SAIS QUOI: intoxicating soundtrack, star-studded cast, palpable chemistry, sexual tension beyond belief, the list goes on and on. A story about romance, friendship, betrayal, and the impact of the passage of time all against the backdrop of a sport at the highest level was pure genius. I truly forgot all my troubles as…

Popular reviews

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  Bottoms 2023

  ½ Watched 02 Mar 2024

  This is genuinely one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

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  Encanto 2021

  ★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2022

  Set in a world of magical realism, this film is a critique of aristocracy, ableism, and even makes subtle jabs at the rugged individualism upon which many elements of the capitalist ethos are built (in particular, two notions: that there are skilled/“gifted” workers and that meritocracy exists)- musically critiquing a system where the masses are reliant on gifted elites to keep society functioning, and where elites increasingly feel pressure to provide for the “ungifted.” This film is an ode to…

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