Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Fool's Paradise 2023

  ★★★ Watched 25 Nov 2023

  Fun, but definitely has signs of it being a first try from Charlie Day.

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  Reptile 2023

  ★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2023

  Impressive that this movie has dialogue that makes del Toro seem incompetent.

Popular reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ½ Watched 19 Jan 2017

  This is one of the most predictably contrived movies I have ever seen.

  It depends on the viewer not thinking about what is actually going on and just going with the "story." Without giving away any spoilers, if one were to stop for a moment and think about the non-linear timeline of the film, they'd realize that the events would have never taken place in the first place.

  The "love story" is forced. The "tragedy" is forced. And there's no…

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  Hereditary 2018

  ½ Watched 05 Sep 2019

  This movie was written by a con artist with a few friends who think shitty shit is “avant garde” or whatever... it’s terrible. There’s a couple shock value scenes, a couple scenes that should be twists but don’t have the foundation to be twists, and a couple scenes with a kid slamming his boner into his desk at school. I hated this if you couldn’t tell.