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  • Big
  • Purple Rain
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  • Bloodsport

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  • The Beekeeper

    ★★½

  • Oldboy

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • Venom: The Last Dance

    ★★

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  • The Beekeeper

    The Beekeeper

    ★★½

    It's Jason Statham's Bee analogies that really make this an Oscar caliber type film. I'll also go out of my way to say that Emmy Raver-Lampman's performance fell flat, almost as if she knew the script was a joke but hey a gig's a gig.

  • Oldboy

    Oldboy

    ★★★★

    Finally got around to watching this after all these years, especially since Netflix fixed the language settings (not sure when that was done but i'm glad I watched it now since the film is leaving the streaming service at the end of March 2025).

    I was not expecting that (ew) twist, but am not surprised since this film was so artfully unhinged and every turned corner was a wtf moment. The one take hallway fight scene was done really well…

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  • Know Your Place

    Know Your Place

    ★★★★½

    A young black man is tasked to perform an errand for his busy mother. Enlisting a friend for help, they struggle to get to their final destination, encountering obstacles along the way, whether it be familial, structural or systemic.

    Set in Seattle with a backdrop of gentrification and displacement, at its core the film is about belonging - and the contrasting beliefs of rights and/or privileges to belong.

    Director Mohajerjasbi’s slow overhead shots of Seattle are beautiful yet intentional in…

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.