FIUJoel

FIUJoel

Favorite films

  • Field of Dreams
  • Back to the Future
  • Jaws
  • Jerry Maguire

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

  • Our Little Secret

    ★★½

  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

    ★★½

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★★

    Jack Quaid is the real deal. This was a simple, fast-paced, well-written action comedy which has some gnarly makeup effects (and yet, still doesn’t go super over the top) and really great sequences. It’s a really fun ride and a great watch with a crowd!

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

    Nowhere near as terrible as everyone says it is, but it still is a messy movie that could have been great, but is hampered by an uneven script, muddled plot, and some subpar directing. It's, in many ways, a weaker copy of the espionage thriller tone of Winter Soldier. Perhaps all the reshoots and rewrites made the movie better than what it originally was, but I am curious what that original film would have looked like.

    And yet, I still…

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  • An Almost Christmas Story

    An Almost Christmas Story

    ★★

    Meh. It was nice to look at. But not much else there.

  • Reagan

    Reagan

    ★★½

    I'm a great admirer of Reagan, and I’ve been waiting for a biopic that did the story of one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century justice. Sadly, my wait will have to continue.

    There are nuggets of a good movie in here, but it suffers from what too many biopics suffer from: a fly-by through decades of events that makes the movie feel a mile long but an inch thick.

    Simply put, Sean McNamara was not a good…

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