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  • Creed
  • Sing Street
  • Stranger Than Fiction
  • Fools Rush In

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  • Juror #2

    ★★★

  • Alien: Romulus

    ★★★★★

  • The Last Dragon

    ★★★★★

  • Red One

    ★½

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★

    Juror #2 was a decent legal morality tale that can slot in nicely as a streaming exclusive time filler that seems built to generate conversation around nuance and irony and the murky unknowables of ethics and certainty beyond a resonable doubt.

    The film fails on a lot of levels to shake the contrivances and the exactness of the clear cut picture director Clint Eastwood shoots to depict in the circumstances that are necessary for this movie to succeed and honestly…

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★★★

    I sat down and treated myself to finally watching Alien: Romulus. I kicked myself for a long time for not catching it in theaters, and I have dilligently avoided spoilers so that I could watch it on my own time when I was ready to, and daggon if it did just work really hard for me.

    Overall impressions.

    I hands down, absolutely loved it. Amazing. Very intense throughout. Superbly well crafted and imaginitive as heck, just a thoroughly up my…

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  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★★½

    What a film... I will preface this review by saying that while Yes, I do enjoy less serious and more immature seeming surface fare more than most... "Oppenheimer" by Christipher Nolan is just the opposite of all of that, but that is not a rebuke and I loved this film regardless of how serious and grown up the whole endeavor ended up being.

    This movie does not need to be surrounded by barbed wire and shrouded in secrecy to warn…

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    ★★★★★

    It's been long enough that this rewatch felt like a first time and I cant say or think of enough good things to write in this review nor reasons to justify why I don't rewatch this excellent masterwork of a film more often.

    George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" is just a hellride of a good time... the world building and competency porn aspects of the mechanics and just the knowhow on display works to make every cgi laced set…