Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★ Watched 14 Mar 2025 1

  Turgid awkward bland as hell. I cannot imagine willingly sitting through another feature starring Toni Collette in my lifetime 😩

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  Mufasa: The Lion King 2024

  ★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  Unexpectedly far better than the 2019 snoozefest Lion King. It helps that the story is new and marginally compelling, Barry Jenkins can coax better vocal performances out of actors than F*vreau ever could, and the animals look much more expressive this time around. Still a fundamentally broken and bizarre project to take such strains to create photorealistic animals, only to have them belt emotional songs as if their furry little lives depended on it… But if a studio is bound…

Popular reviews

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  Nothing Compares 2022

  ★★ Watched 22 Jan 2022 4

  Effective at stressing the media’s obsession with normative gender presentation and Sinéad O'Connor‘s dedication to political beliefs, but it makes the same mistake as most discussions of O’Connor by not engaging with her career and life past 1993. She’s still the person who lived through those earlier events, and it’s a disservice to her and the audience to refuse considering what happened after SNL-gate, apart from a montage about her legacy (mostly clips of toothless “political actions” by pop stars). If…

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  The Biggest Little Farm 2018

  ★ Watched 05 Jun 2019 1

  Annoyed to the core by this jackass farmer's incessant and asinine voiceover, perhaps most of all when he expresses shock at his bonding with animals that will "become food." Or when he reveals that staring up at the Milky Way makes him feel small.
  This is a mind-numbing TLC series dressed up as a feature film. If you want to see footage of cute animals (especially ones that aren't raised to be slaughtered), you could just try Instagram.