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  Strange Darling 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  This is one of those movies that will either win you over or turn you off entirely based on how you respond to the game it’s actively playing with you as a viewer. Personally, I enjoy being sadistically dicked around a little bit by a genre movie with ambition, so by the end of this I thought it was ultimately a fun and clever subversion on the serial killer thriller, with banger performances from its two leads Willa Fitzgerald and…

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  In some ways, it’s a return to form for Marvel after a shaky few years post-Endgame. But I’m willing to acknowledge it’s possible my tastes have changed since Phase 1, and maybe this is every bit as good as those older movies that I and many others like to put on a pedestal. I dunno. Needs more study. What I can say is this felt like a cool spiritual successor to Captain America: Winter Soldier, channeling Cold War thrillers like…

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  My Best Friend's Girl 2008

  ★★★½ Added

  This seemed to have been universally hated, but I thought it was pretty funny. Go figure. I must be one of the, what, five people left who still consider Dane Cook funny. If you hate him, then yes, you will abhor this movie. His obnoxious douchebag with the heart of gold is a symbol for the movie itself, a film that presents itself as the raunchiest comedy on the block but really, deep down, just wants to be a fluffy…

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Added

  One of the coolest movies ever made and a masterpiece of the crime genre, Michael Mann has never been better. Furnished with the director's trademark gritty urban style, Pacino and De Niro making every movie geek's dream come true with an unforgettable onscreen rivalry, intense action scenes that take you into the fray like very few movies can, and an amazing supporting cast across the board ... What else can be said that hasn't been already? If you haven't seen…

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