Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  13 Assassins 2010

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2017

  T O T A L M A S S A C R E

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  Live by Night 2016

  ★★ Watched 15 Jan 2017

  Handsome but almost paralytically dull, animated only by another instance of weird friction between an Affleck character and his massive, contractul batman physique.

Popular reviews

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  The Goonies 1985

  ½ Watched 03 Aug 2014 4

  I rewatched this after roughly a decade, because I've made hay with my distaste when faced with HUGE FANS so many times I thought it would be fair to revisit and reevaluate instead of taking even a single step toward doing something worthwhile with my afternoon/life.

  Child me, and young adult me, were both right: 2 hours of children screaming isn't an entertaining adventure, it's hell.

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  The Nice Guys 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 20 May 2016

  Ryan Gosling will always be dear to me for often seeking out new routes to cinematic emasculation.

  I think I'm approaching Russel Crowe's physique *and* temperament in my old age I probably have a serious self inventory to do.

  Shane Black has a weird talent for making precocious kid shit work.

  It goes down so easy? A lot of the jokes or moments that seem like they should be *big* go down small but then pay dividends later. Like Gosling's…