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Recent reviews

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  So bad that midway through I started to think they should cancel the upcoming Avengers films, because you cannot build on this. It barely functions as a standalone film. It relies an unreasonable amount on pre-existing knowledge. All the character work is shorthand. It's an action comedy with bad action and jokes that don't land. It's ugly. The villains have no presence. I don't think there's a single passable scene, let alone a good scene. Bury Julius Onah under director jail.

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  Instruments of a Beating Heart 2024

  Watched 26 Jan 2025

  cute cute cute …OMG?!… cute cute cute

  It’s like if School of Rock turned into Whiplash for a bit in the middle.

Popular reviews

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  Dredd 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2012 4

  'You look ready.'

  This film is easily compared with The Raid, which has essentially the same setup, without the bells and whistles of futuristic drugs and sexy psychic Olivia Thirlby. The Raid, being a relatively low budget martial arts flick, impressed me more. The Raid overcame a neat but slim premise by being extremely creative with its action, not just in its fight choreography, but with the basic setups of each individual conflict. Dredd was brutal, and entertaining, but ultimately…

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  Batman Begins 2005

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jun 2012

  'Don't be afraid...'

  Such a good film. All the stuff up to and including Batman's first appearance is stellar and really holds up, the photography is great and the scene where the audience gets a criminal's POV of Batman is genius (emulated fairly well by The Incredible Hulk, where it makes less sense). I'm less keen on some of the stylistic choices in the latter half of the film, especially when compared with followup The Dark Knight, but it hardly…