Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Beast Stalker 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Over-edited and almost campy at points, but has a really good bad guy and some emotions going on.

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  Crossword Mysteries: Abracadaver 2020

  Watched 21 Mar 2025

  “I’m working on a crossword about magic.”

Popular reviews

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  Devara : Part 1 2024

  ★★½ Watched 26 Sep 2024 1

  Emily and I accidentally found ourselves at the “global premier” of this movie at 3:38 (exactly) on a Thursday. We were the only non-Indian people in a huge sold out XD theater.

  The guy next to me had taken off of work to see it, and apparently it was premiering at the exact same minute in India. He checked with me several times to make sure I was liking it and understood the plot, and when we talked at intermission…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★½ Watched 26 Jul 2023

  Had a good time watching this with friends, and thought it mostly got better as it went on.

  Plenty of fun sets and costumes that feel very Burtonian, which I always like. Some of the jokes in here really land, and I felt like I got my money’s worth of laughs for sure.

  The movie does a lot of moralizing, and has several messages it would like to hammer home, many of which are explicitly stated at some point, but…

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