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Recent reviews

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  A Working Man 2025

  ★ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  There was one cheesy line in this entire 2-hour, far-too-serious, soulless, characterless, boring action movie. ONE. Why is he a working man? Why can he "pay his bills" or drive a dodge viper, but he can't afford to defend himself in court? Why is this taking itself so seriously when FOUR John Wick movies understood that these movies need a simple motivation (a dead dog) and personality to be entertaining? You make contrived nonsense when you make movies where men can't laugh at themselves and have fun.

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  Elton John: Never Too Late 2024

  ★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Should've been about what it thought it was about.

Popular reviews

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2024 3

  I don't know how you make a better Alien sequel than this. If you're a fan of the series, this film reveres all of it, not just Alien.

  You'll see a lot of reviews saying that Romulus references its predecessors quite a lot, and it does. But think of this less as the tasteless fan-service we've been fed on a drip in recent years (there is one moment in act one that's a tad heavy-handed). Romulus manages to make 6…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jul 2023

  Oppenheimer is a rush of incessant urgency, never feeling stretched over its three-hour runtime. It continues to surprise when it moves beyond the problem of creating the bomb and digs into the discrepancies between conjecture and outcome, not just about physics but also people and loyalty.

  Filmed and presented on Imax, the scope of man's reckless ambition, and the fallout, is laid bare in this technical and dramatic achievement. Downey's magnitude as an actor after a decade of Marvel is…