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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  Back to the Marvel well in what is a average film that attempts to instill the feelings of paranoia that Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits, but never reaches. The story is basically an extension of the middle of the road TV Series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier combined with the elements of the near forgotten The Incredible Hulk movie. With Deadpool and Wolverine, and this movie, Marvel seems to want to close loopholes that aren't really that important…

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★ Watched 12 Feb 2025

  I have to say it right off the bat, I did not enjoy Nickel Boys. It's not because of the cast - Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor are all really moving in their performances. It's not because of the subject matter, that while challenging is something that needs to be communicated and explored. What happened at that Florida reform school is tragic and criminal anyone involved in it should be punished. The cinematography felt very lifelike and foreboding…

Popular reviews

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  Fire Birds 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jun 2023

  A typical Top Gun homage that doesn’t stop moving, because if it did there would be so many questions. Nobody is really acting here, just portraying types, the music is standard, the story is barely there, and it makes no sense tho have the Apache in Top Gun like fights.  However it does have an exciting climax and the aerial photography is pretty sharp,  it has a nice slightly unhinged Nicholas Cage performance, a beautiful Sean Young, and Tommy Lee Jones in Fugitive mode so it’s not unwatchable.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Definitely one of the best films of 2024, and while not my favorite of the year, it is in my top 5. I went into this film completely cold and not knowing anything except the long running time, but as is the case for good films, I didn't really notice it while watching the film. It is structured as two sections, with an intermission, and the story is well laid out and the break makes perfect sense within the story.…

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