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I used to tweet snide movie impressions as "reviews", and boy do they look dumb now that I've imported them all here.

Favorite films

  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Your Name.
  • The Iron Giant

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  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

    ★★★

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★★★

  • Hit Man

    ★★★

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★★★★

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  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★★★

    Everything this added to the lean thrill ride of Fury Road was a mistake.

  • Hit Man

    Hit Man

    ★★★

    Glen Powell makes the case that men can be “adorkable” too in a silly little story that moves a little too slow and tries a little too hard to be sexy, and then as you enter the third act you realize that was the third act and the movie’s over.

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  • The Rock

    The Rock

    ★★★★

    There's so much to like here—Connery, Harris—but what brings it all together is Nic Cage and Michael Bay doing what they do best. Too much of either has ruined many a film; this is a high point for both. This is peak Cage, throwing himself into a role with his unique manic energy before it was stale, before it was ironic, before he sleep-walked through this character. And this is Michael Bay's amped up cinematography in service of a goofy…

  • The Devil All the Time

    The Devil All the Time

    ★★★

    Sheesh, if your life has already been as rough as any of these characters, maybe don’t also hitchhike.