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  Men in Black 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  - Quite possibly best constructed, paced, and executed blockbuster script in history. Then it brings in the perfect director and impeccable cast and really fun production design. All done in 90 minutes. An incredible piece of summer pop filmmaking.

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  Hot Tub Time Machine 2010

  ★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  - This remains a delight. Knows exactly what it is, hand-waves the bullshit plot stuff, every actor completely locked in.

Popular reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2023 2

  - Good lord. 
  - There’s just so much movie here. 
  - It feels like too much movie. 
  - But also not enough movie. 
  - This is the fully realized fever dream of a visionary director that’s gone from sensational indie film to critically and financially massive studio musical to misunderstood and underseen studio biopic. This works as a 3 hour rebuttal to Chazelle losing the Oscar for La La Land in the way he did followed by First Man’s relative…

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  - My exact kind of film, a one night odyssey behind a show I’ve been obsessed with for 25 years. I just wish it wasn’t so far up its own ass. 
  - All the Nicholas Braun stuff feels mean-spirited, with his portrayal of two different comedic geniuses devalued to “hey look isn’t this guy WeIrD?!”
  - Gabriel LaBelle continues to build a great resume, though I’m a bit worried that he’s played the same confident, smooth talking white guy in…

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