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  Strange Magic 2015

  ★★★ Rewatched 17 Oct 2024

  I have a way better understanding of this film than I did in 2015. There’s still a lot of mess but it’s a lot more enjoyable than I remember so I upped my rating from 2 to 3 stars.

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  Trap 2024

  ★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2024

  Oh, to have watched this with a buddy so someone could scream "...WHAT WAS THAT?" with me when the movie casually reveals where we're really going... Sadly, it's too late. Even alone, I had a great time witnessing the Trap unfold. This is the kind of almost-too-sincere goofy I really like. The acting kind of spirals as the story does, achieving a silly thriller that's hard to compare to anything else, probably since seeing The Visit. This looks fun to…

Popular reviews

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  Captain America: Civil War 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Apr 2016 11

  Just after the first fifteen minutes of the film I felt as if I couldn't wait until I got to watch what I had seen so far thirty more times. This feeling only intensified the longer I sat in the theater. This movie shouldn't work. You'd have to be a genius to make this movie work. Fortunately, Marvel Studios hired two geniuses.

  Everything works. Every single character shines. It's actually incredible that not a single Avenger gets the shaft in…

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  Fifty Shades of Black 2016

  ★ Watched 12 Feb 2016

  I mean... I wouldn't say it's unwatchable. But technically shit isn't inedible either.