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  Dumb and Dumber 1994

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Haven't seen this since I was a kid and it's actually still pretty funny. A lot of the gags are surprisingly clever, the physical comedy is solid, there's a bit of gross-out humor, and yes, there are a few jokes that aged poorly though not as many as some of the movie's contemporaries.

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  The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Good, clean Guy Ritchie fun. I always love watching Henry Cavill and seeing Alan Ritchson in action for the first time does make me understand the fascination some people have with Reacher. Dude is BIG.

  The main problem I have with it is that there's not really all that much conflict or tension. The good guys are hip-firing headshots every time and the bad guys are... well, they're literally storm troopers, but also in the sense that every shot they…

Popular reviews

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  Bad Ben 9: Benign 2021

  ★★★ Watched 26 Oct 2021

  Bad Ben at its purest and most refined. Just Tom Riley cursing up a storm, ambling around a house, and getting pranked by ghosts, but in this one we get state of the art graphics and Nude Tom!

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  Bad Ben: Alien Agenda 2023

  ½ Watched 02 Jul 2023

  For the previous film in the series, Bad Ben: Undead, I wrote an earnest essay, attempting to understand the mindset of director Nigel Bach. I'm not doing that again, because every word of the origin review stands, except that this time instead of Tired Tony reading fake eulogies, we get AI Tom reading abduction stories with a few longer, more tedious stories thrown in earlier on.

  On the plus side, these donor cameos are cut up and spread out throughout…