Favorite films

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★½ Watched 01 Nov 2024

  TBH there’s a lot I admire about this movie, in that it centers war photographers, who by nature have to be neutral and detached from the events they photograph, so I can respect that the movie in turn takes a neutral approach to the way it presents the fictional war - so much so that we don’t know what either side is fighting for, who is “right”, how we should feel when the president gets assassinated, etc. And I understand…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  One of the few times I left a movie about clones/twins/what-have-you and felt like they didn’t shortchange the narrative potential of the doubles concept.
  Ultimately it drags. Mark Ruffalo goes HUUUUGE.

Popular reviews

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  mother! 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Jun 2018

  If this has made 15 years earlier, I'd like to think they would've cast the Kristen Wiig part with Cheri Oteri.

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2018

  The dismantling-HAL scene is legit one of the best things I've ever seen in a movie.

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