Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Batman 1989

  ★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2022

  *Danny Elfman score plays*

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  Rent-A-Pal 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2022

  EXCELLENT micro-horror! Scary, exciting, and melancholic all at once. The third act drops off just a teeny bit, but since I still am thinking about what it could have all meant, it certainly left a good impression on me.

Popular reviews

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  ★★ Watched 28 Dec 2021

  Wouldn’t have been that bad if it were shorter. McKay’s satire is very hit or miss, and it is here, too, but once you get past the bluntness and enjoy the silliness of some of it, it kind of works. Like sketch comedy.

  Two major issues:
  1. Mean-spiritedness is not inherently funny. I get they’re trying to be “relatable”, but mean-spiritedness is almost never funny when it is aimed at the likeable characters incessantly.
  2. Non-linear editing is not always…

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  The Boss Baby: Family Business 2021

  ★★★★ Rewatched 10 Jan 2022 1

  “I’m—uh, I’m a baaabeeey... in a—a.. mechaaaa.” - Jeff Goldblum

  I cannot stress how surprisingly GREAT this movie is. After a painfully standard first film (which I’ll admit was retroactively better once rewatching after seeing this), The Boss Baby: Family Business is quite literally one of the best sequels in modern animation. It took everything that worked in the first film and expanded upon it, proving that the creators behind this initially surface-level concept really, really, REALLY care about this universe and…