Justin Kirby

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Favorite films

  • The Batman
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Inception
  • Psycho

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  • Mean Girls

    ★★★½

  • High School Musical 3: Senior Year

    ★★★½

  • High School Musical 2

    ★★★★½

  • High School Musical

    ★★★★

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  • The Avengers

    The Avengers

    ★★★★★

    I don't know how, but watching this makes me appreciate both it and Endgame even more. Endgame is The Avengers pumped full of so many steroids that it's basically no longer recognizable as its former self, and somehow I love that. Once upon a time nothing could possibly be a better exemplar of the superhero genre than The Avengers. I have a lot of appreciation for how assured Endgame is in itself as the most superhero film to ever superhero…

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  • Mean Girls

    Mean Girls

    ★★★½

    Good, not great. There are some fun updates to the story but it's clearly inferior to the original and overall the music wasn't as good as I'd expected. Reneé Rapp steals the show and honestly no one else's performance even comes close, so it makes sense the best songs (Someone Gets Hurt and World Burn) are hers.

  • Dear Santa

    Dear Santa

    ★½

    Weird subplot here that the writers were ill-equipped to navigate with an extreme cop-out ending that removes all of the narrative weight from a film already lacking in value.

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  • Tenet

    Tenet

    ★★★★½

    "I might just be your second chance."
    "I don't need redemption."
    "At betrayal."

    Saw it in IMAX and it was exhilarating. I think most of the criticisms against Nolan are pretty valid, but not only am I not bothered by any of them, I seem to actually enjoy all of these things about his films. People say his movies are humorless. I've always really enjoyed his dry humor. People say his movies lack emotion. I've always found his films to…

  • Joker

    Joker

    ★★★

    Messy, confused, and questionable.