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Recent reviews

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  On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  This gets better every time I watch it! I completely understand why the contemporary reviews were mixed. It takes a while to get going (the first hour is confusing at first, then somewhat boring), much of it doesn't feel like a 007 picture (it's hard to explain why, but I think this is due to the lack of gadgets or the initial mission info dump that we usually see), and George Lazenby is not Sean Connery (although I'm not so…

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  Ya'll are getting way too riled up about this one! It's a total group-think pan, if you ask me. If you're so concerned about the visual effects, disjointed story, forgettable and underwhelming villains, dubious science, exposition, fan service, references and characters from past films you forgot about, militarism, or muddled political message, why are you just now bringing it up, thirty-five films and ten TV-shows later? I implore you to watch Joss Whedon's Avengers and tell me how the visual…

Popular reviews

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Oct 2017

  For a moment there, I thought this would be the third movie of the past ten years where Harrison Ford reprises an iconic role in which we find out that one of the new characters is "his son."

  Jokes aside, this movie kicks ass. As a filmmaker exercising his gifts, Denis Villeneuve isn't just some jock flexing his muscles, he's a freaking bodybuilder. This is the biggest, boldest, most epic art film I have ever seen; it made me want…

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  The Other Side of the Wind 2018

  ★★★ Watched 02 Nov 2018

  "Excuse me, I'm afraid we're getting out of sequence. Someone must have given you the wrong reel."

  "Does it matter?"

  "Well... You're right, I suppose. It doesn't matter at all."

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  Anyone who loves film should be able to appreciate the gesture here. Netflix, a company with about a bajillion active users and piles of money coming in every month from subscription fees, bankrolled the restoration and completion of a doomed, nearly fifty-year-old project, with no financial incentive to do…