Joshua

Joshua

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  • Hercules

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★★

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

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  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

    I often think about how moments define our lives, and what it would mean to have your worst moment define you.  How do you move past that, how do you heal, how do you define yourself again.  I think this movie helps to show the power of connection, of community, and of art in answering these questions.

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

    I struggle to rate movies like this sometimes.  At a certain level it’s so basic, so small, and so inconsequential.  But i loved every second of it.  It’s well acted, written, shot, thought out, and I was genuinely moved by it in so many ways.  I feel like i shouldn’t give it five stars for some reason but i can’t really think why

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  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers

    ★★★★½

    i quite liked this movie.  i had little expectations beyond seeing some twitter buzz for it.  Paully G’s acting was phenomenal and i loved him.

  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★★½

    Genuinely an extremely conflicting movie for me. 

    To preface, the first Gladiator is one of my favourite movies of all time, and any sequel is bound to face comparison to the original most likely to its detriment.

    Starting with positives, Gladiator 2 had a lot of them! Denzel was truly phenomenal, pedro pascal was great, as were the Twin Emperors.  The fight scenes were epic and the general plot was interesting.


    Low points, connie nelson was atrocious (which is shocking…

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