Favorite films

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov are incredible, but my personal favorite performance here is Mark Eydelshteyn. The cast is fantastic in general, and the movie has a huge heart and an electric energy here, which makes this a lot of fun to watch! 

  This is absolutely longer than it needs to be, and the film’s middle section spends so much time going from place to place looking for Vanya, and it feels a bit tedious. It’s still a thrilling journey overall, and I thought it stuck the landing. I just wish there were some cuts in the middle, maybe even a montage, to keep it moving.

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2025 2

  Certainly not one of the MCU’s best, but I liked this more than most people. I know the production process was a bit of a mess, and you can feel a bit of that in the finished product. But I still thought it was really exciting, and I liked the way it brought less popular films like The Incredible Hulk and Eternals back into the larger universe.

  I do wish Eli was a part of this, especially with the significance of…

Popular reviews

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  The First Omen 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Apr 2024

  “The miracle of life can be a messy business.”

  The movies that comprise The Omen franchise are all pretty good, but none of them are particularly remarkable in my opinion. I was relatively optimistic about this one, though it’s not exactly a story that was begging to be told, and releasing it so close to the fantastic Immaculate was always going to invite comparison. But this is so compelling, with great scares and genuinely freaky imagery. There is some wild…

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  Child's Play 2 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2020 2

  Film #2 of 33 for Hooptober 7.0

  I had never actually fully seen any of the Chucky movies until I watched the original Child’s Play a few months ago. Before that, my only experience with the series was through pop culture osmosis and that one time my brothers showed me a scene as a kid. Turns out that scene was in this movie, so that was fun to revisit as an adult. 

  All that to say I’ve really been enjoying this franchise so…