Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  completely antithetical to the typical comedy special you’d see nowadays on a streaming service: no complaining about the wife as opposed to bragging about having a better relationship with her than ever, no “back in my day” and more “why are we still doing things like this,” lessons and growth instead of lamenting or complaining; this literally ends with a monologue about passing on advice to the younger generation and talking about a funny dad moment with his son. all…

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  Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  this was so close to being decent, and I really wanted to like it more. unfortunately it just gets a bit too ridiculous and goofy with the backstabbing/twists/double-crossing, and while I enjoy Ehrenreich and Glover as Solo and Calrissian, it never really felt like they were the Solo and Calrissian as opposed to just doing good impressions of these characters and their actors in the original trilogy, which would be understandably difficult to truly pull off but is still a…

Popular reviews

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  Dammi 2023

  ★★½ Watched 12 Jul 2024

  cool ideas regarding identity and feeling like an imposter/like you don’t truly belong anywhere, absolutely stunning visually as well, but ultimately 20 minutes is far too little time to get something like this across without it feeling more like a student film than a personal expression of one’s clashing identity. still, I did vibe with it thematically as an Arab as well. just would have much preferred to see this as a full length thing instead of having barely any time to marinate with anything before moving on to the next thing.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  today marks the official start of Robert Pattinson's Oscars campaign, and I will be very, very upset in about 10-11 months if he is not nominated. such a damn fun movie. not quite going to measure up to Bong's best, but honestly not too far off - this is at least as good as SNOWPIERCER is, which I was a big fan of. this has a lot of the same vibes, but with more of a comedy emphasis, a not-as-bleak…