Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Not Marvel's strongest film--it's rushed, clunky, and cheesy. Despite that, it provides satisfying connective tissue to the rest of the MCU without resorting to bad fan-servive. And it's the only movie of this phase (so far) that's really looking forward. Maybe not a great standalone movie, but far from a nail in an MCU coffin as some critics would have you think.

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  Companion 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Certainly not the most profound robot/ai movie out there, but might be the most fun.

Popular reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★½ Watched 05 Oct 2024

  What a mess. So many threads that weave together to make a big boring knot of nothing. Maybe there's a 3-hour cut that actually provides a pay-off for all it's disjointed thoughts... but honestly, even the modest 2-hour run felt like a slog.

  Still, Adam Driver going bonkers is always worth something.

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2019

  As with each of the sequel trilogy movies, The Rise of Skywalker isn't perfect, but gives fans more than enough to be excited about. It's not as much of a 180 from TLJ as critics would have you think. And its callbacks and cameos are more than just fan service. It does however spend too much time following pointless plot threads while rushing though the most interesting parts of the story. Overall, it's a fitting end to this new trilogy and a marked improvement from the prequels.