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Pinned reviews

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  Boxcutter 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Owes a huge debt to Rye Lane (and other walk-and-talk movies), so obviously I dug this. Bonus points for making Toronto look decidedly un-magical. 

  Read my full thoughts for College Movie Review here.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Ruffalo’s performance is calibrated too high, too big for the movie he’s in. But I thought the rest of it worked pretty well. Pattinson is tremendous and I appreciated how all the best and worst aspects of humanity continued onto the ship and colony.

Recent reviews

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  The Ladykillers 1955

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Clearly better than the Coens’ version, but it’s not an uncrossable chasm.

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  The Ladykillers 2004

  ★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  20 years later, it’s still not bad. But something still feels off about the whole enterprise. Part of the problem when you have a batting average as high as the Coens.

Popular reviews

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  When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jun 2020

  Fuck capitalism.
  Fuck the oil and gas industry.
  Fuck the Army Corps of Engineers. 
  Fuck Ray Nagin.
  Fuck Kathleen Blanco.
  Fuck George W. Bush.
  Fuck Michael Brown.
  Fuck FEMA.
  Fuck Michael Chertoff.
  Fuck the local police.
  Fuck the state police.
  Fuck the National Guard.
  Fuck the Army.
  Fuck the insurance companies.
  Fuck the greedy developers.

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  Vai 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2019

  On their own, each short is worth watching. Taken together, it’s one of the most moving films of the year.