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Recent reviews

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  Gladiator 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2024

  I am Maximus Decimus Meridius. And I will have my revenge.

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  Heretic 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 25 Nov 2024

  The writing and performances are there until it isn’t. Love me some good theological horror, but that twist was so underwhelming. Maybe that’s just religion in general.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jul 2023

  According to quantum mechanics, two things can simultaneously be true and wrong. The same can be said about the nature of the nuclear bomb and the nature of the man who fathered it.

  Oppenheimer is a restrained spectacle in deliberation that substitutes grand set pieces and action sequences for near-infinitely long conversations that seem to paradoxically regurgitate the same fears that would go on to influence history as we know it. This film's presence is undoubtedly immovable as its effects…

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  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

  ★ Watched 17 Feb 2023

  I hope this movie gets brought up in arguments for socialism (“it’s so obvious, isn’t it?”). Marvel’s Dynasty is a slew of rushed and half-baked films that amount to a 2-and-a-half hour trailer. Written in the style of a hallmark movie, Peyton Reed shits out an excuse that the Quantum Realm is actually a secret Star Wars— ahem, I mean Marvel universe. All tucked underneath our bigger universe.

  Peyton Reed and Disney spend the entire time measuring dicks with themselves.…