Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Benji was one of my favorite characters to watch in recent memory. People are complex. Nice job Jesse!

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  That Christmas 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Dec 2024

  Recommended by our cruise friends Dom and Helena!
  The first 5 minutes was some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen this year. Super cute, had me and Celeste bawling.

Popular reviews

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  Love Again 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 09 May 2023

  It was the “How the heck are ya?” for me.

  This movie was predictable and the script was laughable in places, but we had a lot of fun watching it and Sam‘s character in Outlander is the naming inspiration for our son, so we naturally support him most chances we get. My wife is a lifelong Celine Dion fan so she cried pretty much any time one of her songs came up in the soundtrack, which was frequently. 

  It was a really fun movie theater memory with my partner, and for that alone it gets a good rating.

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  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 14 Sep 2022 1

  One of, if not the best piece of  Star Wars content to come out in the 21st century. An engaging story that stands independent of the other films. Characters with realistic motivations you come to care about. Meaningful sacrifices.

  I can’t get over that stormtrooper armor is so useless that a blind guy with a stick can wipe out dozens of them, and how terribly this film abuses the use of the old “knock someone out with a bonk on…