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Recent reviews

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Eh. A bit overexplained. Not as funny as it wants to be (what is up with the sauce joke did he think that was a home run?). Mostly just made me want to rewatch Moon.

Popular reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 May 2024 1

  Loved it, so much funnier than I expected! The repeated entrances of the score at the end were so good. 

  And less sex than I expected (good imo, less sinful)

  Campbell and I have been talking about the dynamic in fiction of having two codependent friends where one is nice/reserved/awkward and is our primary protagonist, and the other is wild/outgoing/magnetic but less successful. And the former kinda hates but kinda wants to be the latter. Feels like it’s very common and almost always compelling. (Refusing to list examples to avoid embarrassing myself)

  Oh man and it’s so funny this screenwriter is married to Celine Song

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  The Player 1992

  ★★★★ Rewatched 22 Apr 2024 1

  Walking into the office kitchen Monday morning, saying loudly into my Bluetooth headset (not connected) “I’m thinking about going on an Altman kick.” Give my boss an aggressive finger guns, lean against the counter and use my elbow to casually bump the coffee machine. Makes me a cappuccino. Tastes pretty bad.