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Favorite films

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • RRR
  • No Country for Old Men

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★

    Not very good, but a good enough time

    Jack Quaid's acting is good. Though, he is literally doing Hughie from the Boys

    Aside from one scene which has a lot of slapstick, it tries to play it pretty straight. Which works in its favour and doesn't. On one hand, it doesn't get too distracted by the comedy. And it uses it's serious moments rather well. On the other, without that kind of unique element, it's incredibly generic

    The writing is…

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★

    I love how this indie animated film won an Oscar over Disney

    Despite the fact that it looks like a low poly video game cutscene

    I appreciate the fact that there's no dialogue. It's a very mature choice

    This choice also gives it the chance to sprinkle in visual jokes throughout the film. Most comedy is verbal so it's an interesting approach

    I definitely got some religious allegory vibes from the film: The clear Noah's Ark thing, the possible implications…

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  • The Bikeriders

    The Bikeriders

    ★★★½

    This film is really good considering it was only made on a budget of roughly $40 million

    I liked how it is an indie film, there were defining traits of an indie film sprinkled in, but it was pretentious

    The pacing was weird but in a good way. It felt like it was really fast paced and stuff happened every scene, which kept me invested, but when I think back very little happened

    The performances were easily the standout aspect…

  • The Fall Guy

    The Fall Guy

    ★★★★

    When I first heard about this film, I thought it was a live action film about the game Fall Guys. I'm glad it's not that

    This was a really meta film, it was well written to make it seem believable but not too obvious

    Another good thing about the writing, the film references weren't too hand fisted or obvious

    Not all of the jokes hit for me but, there were so many that there was never really a time for…

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