Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  September 5 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  At the beginning of the movie Miracle (my favorite film as a kid) a montage of major 1970’s events rolls, adding context to the crucial happenings of the 1980 U.S. vs Soviet Union “Miracle on Ice” game. In the montage, they include the shot of the masked Palestinian walking out onto the balcony, that aired live on ABC and around the world at the 1972 Olympics. It scared me as a kid, the visual seared into my brain, but as…

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  Sing 2 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Did I get a little emotional watching an animated lion, voiced by Bono, singing I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For? Yes. Yes I did.

Popular reviews

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  Moana 2 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2024

  My daughter’s first movie theater experience was as magical as I’d hoped. She’s so small we had to hold her seat down so it wouldn’t swallow her up. She hugged her cousin through the climactic scenes, ate little fistfuls of popcorn and danced at the front of the theater to the end credit song. Treasuring all these moments with my little princess Noa… well “she’s technically not a princess, but a lot of people think she is.” 5 star memory (2 star film).

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  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2024

  Harry Potter and Half-the-movie-is-just-sexual-tension-at-Hogwarts