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Favorite films

  • Flight of the Navigator
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Back to the Future

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    ★★★½

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★★

  • Carry-On

    ★★★★

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

    Written by four people who had ChatGPT generate the dialogue, and if not, then woof.

    This is the second time I’ve fallen asleep in the movie theater. 

    I can appreciate a good action sequence- it’s just too bad there wasn’t a good story or directing to go with it.

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy

    ★★★½

    When I got to the credits, I was surprised how well some the characters looked like the real life versions of themselves.

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  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

    I’ve heard this movie accurately described as a scrapbook of the teenage years by Greta Gerwig. The movie is beautiful and well done in my opinion. I found it moving to see the sacrifice of the parent for the child, but at the same time the tension of the parent and child relationship is very relatable. Lady Bird has to get everything she wants to hit rock bottom and understand that her mom really did want what was best for…

  • Wicked

    Wicked

    ★★★★

    Jon M Chu clearly knows how to direct a musical! I think this could’ve been a difficult one to adapt, so I’m impressed.

    I was pretty skeptical the first 20 minutes or so because translating a theatrical musical into a film doesn’t always play out well, and it also took me a bit to get over some of the actors I didn’t particularly like, but once they sang ‘What is this Feeling?’, I was sold from that point on. The…

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