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Recent reviews

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  Lincoln 2012

  ★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  you will forget how funny James Spader is in this

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  real heads know how much I delight in a movie where "guy gets so horny he ruins his life." this one (at least for a little while) is about "guy who gets so paranoid his wife could be horny that he ruins his life"

  slick, well-shot, really witty stuff. terrific fun. I have to know what Hideo Kojima thinks of it

Popular reviews

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  The Hug 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Oct 2018

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  I'm Actually Laughing: Chapo Trap House, Election Night 2016 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2018

  "If we're on stage and, like, North Carolina - Trump, Michigan - Trump, Florida - Trump, the energy in the room is going to get very weird..."

  This may easily be the most overtly political review I ever write on this site. Among the most essential primary source documents about the 2016 Presidential election, there's the video of Hillary Clinton just chilling in Cedar Rapids, the footage of Jeb Bush begging his audience to please clap, and this half-hour documentary…