Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  North by Northwest 1959

  ★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  Some woman Cary Grant’s about to bang: “it’s going to be a long night.”
  Cary Grant: “😮…truuuuu”

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  First half hilarious, second half utter disaster. Really makes you appreciate how effortless Verhoeven did these kinds of things

Popular reviews

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  Booksmart 2019

  ★★ Watched 24 May 2019 2

  Very much the work of a Gen X'er pretending that Gen Z is some kind of ideal society, with every character from the beginning of the film being practically self-actualized. With that, there is absolutely no dramatic urgency: I mean, sure, the girls have something to prove to their classmates, but motivations steadily slip throughout the film—to the convenience of the plot. And that is what this is: a film that cribs all its emotional beats from Superbad without understanding…

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  Spider-Man 3 2007

  ★★★★ Rewatched 10 Mar 2020

  Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight becoming the most highly praised superhero films of all times represents a shift in the ethos of the viewer. No longer could films about fascistic, costumed super-men point fun at their own artifice or have any kind of self-criticism that wasn't completely self-indulgent (Nolan's Batman)—hence, we got the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which much like John Stewart before it intersperses petty jokes throughout to placate audiences need for levity while delivering portentous…