Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Cure for Wellness 2016

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Not a great script, but Gore Verbinski is so fucking good. I want more Gore movies!

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I think Mickey 17 is messy, and if people dislike it or have complaints, I won’t try to correct them or stick up for the movie. 

  But I enjoyed it. 

  It’s long, the pacing is real iffy, it’s not subtle, but I love a space station movie and I love what Pattinson does in all of his freaky-little-guy characters. 

  I don’t know that it’s fulfilling, but I enjoyed it.

Popular reviews

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  Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Jul 2018

  Easily one of the best action movies I’ve seen in years. I’m blown away. 

  Some of the best set-pieces of the series. Excellence in filmmaking in every regard. McQuarrie has outdone himself and the series, and just about everything in the action genre over the last several years. Fallout is suspenseful, exciting, surprising, and action packed. And they manage to fit some heart in as well. Sincerity. 

  Cruise gives an incredible performance, but what makes him an incredible performer in…

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  The Killer 2023

  Watched 07 Nov 2023 2

  While the top of it is ten full pages of voiceover (that gets pretty old), the fact that he’s crashing in an emptied out WeWork space is pretty apt for a movie about the mundanity of the gig economy. It’s well edited, it has the whole Fincher thing of really feeling in a space. He assembles and disassembles his sniper rifle and it’s hot as hell. He uses a standing desk to adjust his shot. 

  And then he fails. The…