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Recent reviews

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  Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 2016

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Amusing how literally Conner prefigures TikTok in this

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★½ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  A nothing of a film, like the least interesting parts of three different movies shoddily lashed together. No stakes, no character arcs, no material for any of its several villains to work with, and so little of substance actually happens that I can’t even account for the full runtime.

Popular reviews

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  Gradations I-II 2020

  Watched 05 Nov 2020

  Watched in:sent (no subject) and Gradations I-II in succession. I was caught by the way that the recurrence of images within a broader abstraction become touchstones, foundational pieces from which attention can launch into image- and sound-scapes that might otherwise hold no associations. Inversely, the recurrent images themselves feel redefined and opened by the abstraction that surrounds them, pulling them through negative and positive space and situating them in a larger aesthetic context, opening the possibility for meaning behind what images (tombstones, angels, wintery limbs) may otherwise portend. The whole is broken down into pieces, and the pieces gain meaning by their persistence into attention.

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  Jurassic World Dominion 2022

  ½ Watched 09 Jun 2022 1

  Just embarrassing. Totally lacking in the tension, wonder, and curiosity that make the original such a mainstay. Largely even lacking in actual dinosaurs!

  Tightens up marginally after it abandons the Maltese Bourne riff to spend a scattered handful of minutes doing dinosaur suspense, but Trevorrow manages to drain the creatures of both majesty and danger by deploying them at unmotivated intervals and refusing to let them actually harm anyone. Remember how much of the cast dies in Jurassic Park? The dinos are essentially…