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Favorite films

  • Before Midnight
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Synecdoche, New York

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Companion

    ★★

  • Saturday Night

    ★★

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★½

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  • The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

    The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

    ★★★★★

    I’ve been watching The Venture Bros. for twenty years. It’s an unshakable experience when you watch a story you love grow up with you, and The Venture Bros. matured in ways that so few stories do. Beyond the leaps and bounds in animation quality that The Venture Bros. saw over its two decades on the air, the show moved with determination from a loving send-up of pop culture staples to a pop culture staple in its own right. It leaned…

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  • The Aristocats

    The Aristocats

    ★½

    contains maybe the most racist 10 seconds of any movie I've ever seen

  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

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

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  • Zack Snyder's Justice League

    Zack Snyder's Justice League

    ½

    The characters in this four-hour movie do not have personalities

  • Songbird

    Songbird

    ½

    Songbird seems like it was made with the specific intent of aging poorly.

    A few years into COVID, the government drags all potentially infected men, women, and children to "Q-Zone" death camps. They do this through the evil, corrupt Department of Sanitation, mostly represented here by Peter Stormare (channeling Gary Oldman in Leon: The Professional), who early in the movie stabs a man to death out of nowhere because he is evil and corrupt. If you're convinced that COVID restrictions…