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  3:10 to Yuma 2007

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  30 minutes longer than the original, and I have so many more questions. This takes a really tight, constrained story and expands it into something that doesn’t really fit the same vibe - full of big shootouts and ever-conflicting character motivations. I don’t have a problem with the concept of making this a large-scale story, but man, the third act comes along and all of a sudden none of the sharpshooters can shoot for shit anymore. It totally breaks the…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I wish the trailer hadn’t given away so much of this. I tried for eternity to avoid the trailer to this but a few weeks ago ended up walking into a theater while it was playing and that was all she wrote. This is a totally unrelated rant to the movie itself, but I feel like we need to go back to leaving it at teaser trailers, because trailers spoil so much of the movie now and it sucks. Take…

Popular reviews

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  Dr. No 1962

  ★★★½ Rewatched 11 Jan 2025

  What better way to spend 2025 than watching 25 James Bond movies? I’ve actually only seen a small handful of them, and I barely remember the ones I have seen, so this should be a fun experience. I wonder just how dated or bad things will get before we make it to the other side of the pond when Casino Royale came out. Maybe they won’t at all, who even knows?

  Dr No is a surprisingly competent first Bond film.…

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  Rebel Without a Cause 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2024

  Potentially the all time best coming of age film. Full of irrational emotions and decisions, but what’s more representative of adolescence than that? The fact that James Dean is still practically a household name despite only having a couple of roles before his untimely death speaks volumes about the importance of this movie. Everything about this oozes icon status, from its memorable dialogue to just about anything Dean does. Genuinely fantastic stuff. The acting from the three leads is incredible, the cinematography and direction was immaculate, and the story was absolutely unhinged. A pure classic, through and through.