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  Jurassic World Dominion 2022

  ★ Watched 08 Jul 2022 1

  Owen is such a stupid character. Silently-conservative cowboy wrangler. At least this iteration is just exceptionally boring as opposed to his mildly sexist prior performance. At one point he's pinned between two T-rexes and he just holds his palms up to their faces and I guess they chill? Jurassic World Dominion brings this franchise to a catastrophically laughable ending, claiming to pose the biggest threat to date while presenting the lowest stakes yet by far. Dinosaurs will officially not be…

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  Madame Web 2024

  ★ Watched 21 Mar 2024

  A tremendous, earnestly historical milestone in bad cinema. Incredibly hilarious. Baffling decisions on all fronts but standing head and shoulders above all else is the direction's utter lack of tonal cohesion or any sense of self-awareness. So many of these performances are so bad. The editing is sloppy and the timing of the cuts provide countless laughs on their own. Every actors' performance comes off like this production was the director's first ever encounter with a real human bean.

  Without…

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  Heretic 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2025

  Absolutely floored by how fully engaged I was by the first two acts. Masterful tension-building and thoroughly intriguing dialogue. Maybe the most disappointing ending of 2024.

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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2024

  A lot of the performances come off more as playing dress-up than actual acting save Jeremy Strong who is, as expected, operating on a higher tier than his costars. Sabastian Stan's Trump at minute one had me worried but the character gradually evolves, ultimately delivering a moderately successful albeit understandably understated performance. Anything more involved may have come off as distracting. Still, something is missing here.

  The score swapped between two modes of operation: upbeat pop-disco that would occasionally melt…

Popular reviews

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  Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jul 2017

  + Tom Holland killin it
  + All the young newcomer actors kill it. Very surprising.
  + Michael Keaton killin it
  + Robert Downey Jr killin it
  + The absolute best part of this is the writing. It's got a very strong plot with weighty emotional highs and lows. The dialogue is genuinely funny, the characters are lovable, the plot has a beautiful pace.
  + The marketing for this was great in retrospect. The trailers seemed like they showed a lot…

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Oct 2021 3

  A true ending, for an ending's sake. Remarkably unique and sweetly earnest in the context of the entire franchise. Every beat in the script is reminding us that this is the end and, for all intents and purposes, the story is over by the time the opening credits wrap up. I loved the Pierce Brosnan installments because they came out when I was a kid. Casino Royale changed my life forever when I got to see it in theaters just…