Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  ★★½ Rewatched 27 Mar 2025

  Technically watched in preparation for San Francisco. This movie starts off great (love the scenes in SF) and most of the action is actually filmed really well, but man this has so so much exposition. More than half of this film feels like the movie expositing to us about Shang-Chi's father, then his mother, then about dragons and stuff. It's all too much. It hurts more because the cast is all pretty good, and I see the vision. I really…

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  Milk 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Watched in preparation of my San Francisco trip. The most formulaic of biopics but dammit if I didn't have a good time watching this. There's classic lines foreshadowing his demise that I'm sure were made up, lots of Oscar-bait type background music, and even stills at the end showing how well the actors look like the people they are portraying. Even for all its flaws, it's still an important part of history and activism I'm glad I learned about. The performances were all great (even James Franco), and I really liked seeing Milk evolve beyond just an activist to a politician.

Popular reviews

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  jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy 2022

  Added 2

  How much do you want to bet this is never coming out

  EDIT: Welp.
  EDIT 2: Kanye shouldn't be able to edit his own auto-documentary. Why does this have to be argued?

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jun 2023 4

  So sorry to be the odd one out but it's getting a low 8/10 from me. It's clearly not because this is bad, but because I'm an ungrateful dad who wants their child to not just be great, but better than perfect.

  The animation is to die for, and this may be the most stunning, elaborate animated film I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Anime may have grace, but this movie feels like it took five painstaking capitalist-heavy…