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Recent reviews

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  Practical Magic 1998

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  B-

  10/10 cat performance. And a Margo sighting!! Great score too. That said, this has two of the baddest baddies of all time paired with the middest of men (who also happen to be an abuser and a cop!). Jail!!

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  No Way Out 1987

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  B-

  Insane movie. Batshit twist ending. Includes one of the most homophobic characters I’ve ever seen and possibly the worst score of all time. Plot hinges on “pixel decoding” a polaroid of Kevin Costner’s boner face (he also eats bugs at one point). MVP tie between evil Will Patton’s blonde combover and tech analyst Dzundza’s fisherman’s vest pockets.

Popular reviews

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  Roma 2018

  ★★★ Watched 23 Dec 2018

  B

  I feel about this movie the same way I felt about Dunkirk (2017) last year. In terms of the visuals, the sound, and the technical aspects, I'm incredibly impressed. But overall something just isn't sticking for me. I keep reading reviews saying things like "an incredibly personal introspective into one woman's life" but I didn't really get that sense at all. Very few scenes gave me the impression that I was witnessing Cleo's inner thoughts or her specific reactions…

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  Spies in Disguise 2019

  ★ Watched 26 Dec 2019 1

  C-

  CONS:
  -Tired and unattractive visual style
  -70% of the jokes are potty humor or "adult" jokes that are simply references to something like rectums or cloacas
  -Lots of "science talk" that is either straight up wrong or overly nonsensical just to sound "smart"
  -Trope of animal transformation as a vehicle to teach the main character some lesson
  -Trope of a scientific person being rejected for being too "weird" (even while in the midst of other scientists)
  -Gluten free bread being funny for some reason (No mention of Celiac disease, also bread is bad for birds!)

  PROS:
  -Rashida Jones and Karen Gillan
  -Will Smith's bird eyebrows