Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Super Dark Times 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Aug 2023

  Fantastic movie about just how feral teenage boys can be, even among a backsplash of banality

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  Flamin' Hot 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Apr 2023

  Based on the memoirs of Executive Richard Montañez, Flamin' Hot details his story about the creation of the Flamin' Hot Cheeto brand as a vehicle to discuss the radical shifts in racial attitudes in 20th century California to latin populations.

  The movie is designed to be inspirational and for many it will have a lot of importance and meaning on that front. Ultimately Montañez as a character has an infectious can-do attitude that is encouraging to even the most cynically…

Popular reviews

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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  ★½ Added

  Promising Young Woman's largest virtue was it's sub two hour run time. The movie seemed to be trying to go in too many directions at once but at least it didn't do so for 3 hours.

  I try to judge movies within the parameters they establish and the largest failure of PYW is that it is a revenge tale where the author clearly doesn't actually believe in the power of revenge. It's fine to ignore genre conventions or even develop…

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  In the Heights 2021

  ★★½ Watched 16 Apr 2021

  This review was written on a pixel 5 4 bucks of chuck in.

  This movie gets a perfect mediocre rating, but do not let that fool you, it is wildly uneven. There are scenes that bored me to no end, filled with vague meaningless singing you could ignore, as well as my favorite scene from any musical ever.

  Do you want to see this movie?

  If your answer is yes or no, that is the exact answer to 'Will you…