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  Love, Death & Robots: Jibaro 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Oct 2022

  This. 

  This is possibly the most beautiful piece of short film I’ve ever seen. I’m not exaggerating when I say I was COMPLETELY blown away. 

  Anyone who looks at this and says it shouldn’t be lumped in with true “films” is completely lost. 

  I cannot overstate how amazing this work is. Best thing I watched this year.

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  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2023

  Oh my god man. 

  I saw the reviews, I watched the “video essays” but nothing did this movie justice. It was interstellar. 

  I was simply not ready for the XXXXXXX oh man. So good.

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jun 2024

  Come on then!

  How can it be as good as the first? 

  The first one was good because it was new, it was amazing, it was something we had never seen before. I almost didn't want to watch this, because I knew it couldn’t live up to the high level the first hit. 

  BUT

  IT

  
  DID.

  
  Damn. 

  These folks are good. 

  
  Criticism?

  OK, the soundtrack didnt hit as hard. At no point did they slap me with a “What’s up Danger?” Or a “Sunflower.” Otherwise, easily the equal.

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2024

  Paul Giamatti. I mean damn. But Dominic Sessa, as Angus, was revelatory. What I will say is the handshake between the two of them, carry’s more weight than any I’ve seen before. And that isn’t a unique occurrence in the film. When Da’Vine’s Mary holds Angus’s hand outside the headmasters office. When Hunham does the same for Mary. They just don't make movies like this, and if they do, they are never this good.

  This movie really wasn’t what I…

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  Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2023

  Captured the difficulty of filming such a piece, both physically, and less tangibly, but more emotionally, socially.

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  9 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2011

  So, I saw this movie about two weeks after returning from a tour in Afghanistan. The post apocalyptic world in the film actually frightened me, and had an impact on me a film hasn’t had since I was a kid. 

  I don’t know that the magic storyline and everything lived up to the hype, but the visuals are really something else, and I often think of this film at seemingly unrelated events.

  It has definitely stuck with me.