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Recent reviews

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  Starship Troopers 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  What were the studio notes like on this.

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  Ready Player One 2018

  ★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  One wonders what Paul Verhoeven might have done with this depressive dreck; sincere execution was not the right move. But then Spielberg made two of his best films, so.

Popular reviews

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  Queen of the Desert 2015

  ½ Watched 08 Nov 2015

  How bad is this movie? Its last lines are literally, "She is the queen of the desert." ROLL CREDITS! (Just kidding, there's five minutes of titles explaining what happened to every character in the film, including two who are only introduced in the final scene. Then we get the credits.)

  The worst part is this doesn't even feel like the typical bad Herzog movie, flying off the rails out of the same demented genius that gives us his great films.…

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  Machine Gun McCain 1969

  ★★½ Watched 12 Nov 2015

  Should have been called Timed Explosive McCain.