Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★ Rewatched 22 Jan 2025

  I really really really wanted to like this on the second watch.

  I ended up feeling even more disappointed.

  This movie is so technically brilliant and fun (costumes, set design, acting, cinematography, etc.), but everything else falls so flat. I couldn't be emotionally invested in any of the characters because there was never a moment to sit in the emotion without Ken, or the Mattel CEO pulling some silly antic. It was so frustrating, and by the end of the…

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Snow was a practically unbeatable and extremely calculated villain after this, and that is so chilling to me. He learned from his and others mistakes, and that's what made him so invincible. Yoinks.

Popular reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Nov 2024 1

  yeah, the dancing scene got to me.

  (but I'll tell you what DIDN'T get to me, seeing JEFF GOLDBLUM'S GODFORSAKEN FACE CARVED INTO A ROCK FACE STARING OUT DURING A SOMEWHAT EMOTIONAL SCENE, THAT'S WHAT)

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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  ★★★ Rewatched 20 May 2023

  I'd die for Michelle Yeoh