Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  “Kek, this is based. Wait until 4chan hears about this.”

  -Harry Truman right after dropping Little Boy, probably

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  1917 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  One of the best movie theater experiences I ever had. Not really an “action film”, but I was constantly on the edge of my seat waiting for the next fight to kick off. One-take camera work is incredible and shots / music really nail the tone of crawling through no mans land.

Popular reviews

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2023

  Not quite as terrible as many make it out to be, but this movie is just… ODD. So many time cuts without needed context, such a drab color palate mixed with unfitting cheery music, and a ton of focus on Napoleon & Joséphine’s relationship that never really went anywhere meaningful… and also so much gratuitous sex in the first half of the movie (Out-of-pocket doesn’t even begin to describe it). On the other hand, the special effects were surprisingly well done,…

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  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  The best of the trilogy, though that’s not saying much. The main problem this movie (and really the whole Hobbit trilogy) has is that it’s taking a single book and stretching the story much longer than was intended, which creates all sorts of useless filler and nonsensical side plots. The tone is also all over the place, as it can’t decide whether it’s a faithful adaptation of a kid’s fairy tale or a prequel to a mature fantasy epic (believe…

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