Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Heretic 2024

  ★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  I really hated this
  So many lens flares
  It felt M Night Shyamalan, I don’t like M Night Shyamalan
  It reminded me of The Menu and Immaculate 
  I hate those movies
  Misdirection after misdirection, and pontificating on things like control, belief, free will, etc. It offers me nothing and is about some of my favorite things to talk and think about. It’s also not scary at all and probably would’ve been best following the “Women Talking” route. 
  Go watch St Maud or shoot even “The Truman Show” or something. Blech!

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  Moulin Rouge! 2001

  ★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  I honestly don’t know how to feel about this but it was fun to turn on as I’m playing Minecraft?

Popular reviews

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  The Batman 2022

  ★½ Added

  I really wanted to like this movie. I saw everyone else liking it, and I think this made my expectations rise really high- maybe too high. I didn't like this unfortunately. The upsides were the cinematography, the atmosphere, the world-building etc. But as far as plot and characters, these fell short for me. I didn't like Batman or Cat-woman. I especially didn't see any romance between them, no chemistry. I even felt they weren't very believable as partners, they just…

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  There Will Be Blood 2007

  ★★★★½ Added

  I love when PTA does a deep character study on the main character, in "Punch Drunk Love"'s case, the protagonist, Barry. In "There Will Be Blood", it's the antagonist who gets the spotlight. PTA does a fabulous job fleshing out a character, making them so real in their pathology and mannerisms... although the credit goes equally to Daniel Day Lewis. I heard a lot of personal freedom was given to the actor to play around with Daniel Plainview.
  Anyways, besides…