Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jul 2023

  This film is basically Intro to Feminism 101 presented as a Socratic dialogue between Barbie and Ken and it rules.

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Jul 2023

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

Popular reviews

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  Dark Phoenix 2019

  ★★ Watched 05 Jun 2019

  Got a lot of thoughts that I’ll dot point below but overall: Compared to Last Stand it may be a better adaptation of the arc in abstract... but a worse film overall (though I think that Last Stand is a bit underrated). 

  Anyway, random thoughts follow

  - Firstly, most of these thoughts occurred while watching the film because it was dragging and my mind started to wander. Not a great sign
  - The X-Mansion is really filled with a lot of…

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Aug 2020 2

  This may end up being one of my favourite Nolan films. 

  I’m a sucker for concepts like this, and I tend to fall on the “Nolan is pretty good” side of the debate, so I was anticipating a decent ride, but it was so shrouded in mystery I couldn’t help but be partly skeptical. 

  I’ll try to keep that mystery in this review as a lot of fun of the film is in that, and I’m aware that due to…

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