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  Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022

  ★½ Watched 10 Jun 2022

  Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is not the worst film in the Fantastic Beasts series. However, that bar is astonishingly low. The original Fantastic Beasts was a largely inoffensive romp, but Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is actively insulting to anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing it. The Wizarding World used to be a truly magical place to visit, but much like the Dementor’s Kiss, David Yates and the creators of the Fantastic Beasts series have drained this…

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  The Shawshank Redemption 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Apr 2022

  “There’s not a a day goes by that I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed a terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense into him — tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone and this old man is all that’s left. I gotta live…

Recent reviews

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  Incredibles 2 2018

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Feb 2024

  I liked this even more on a revisit. Doesn’t quite reach the heights of the original for me, but there’s a few sequences (namely the train chase) that are A++.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Feb 2024

  Still really great and wildly imaginative, but didn’t grab me in quite the same way as the first time (which I expected).

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  Gosling is obviously doing a ton here and doing it so well, but I walked away from the movie thoroughly impressed by America Ferrera’s and Margot Robbie’s performances. Both roles and performances have more texture than Gosling’s Ken (by design, no doubt), and I thought both performers were pretty remarkable in key places. That’s not to say that Gosling’s Ken is one-dimensional, because he really isn’t and there’s a surprising amount of depth to his character and the themes associated…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2023

  What a remarkable achievement in animation and animated storytelling. Easily the most creative animated work I’ve ever seen, and even that feels like an understatement somehow. Qualifying this movie simply among its animated peers is doing this film a disservice. 

  One of the easiest 5 star ratings I’ve given in a while.