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  Moana 2 2024

  ★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I don’t know the full insider baseball details of this but even so I can tell/feel that this had a messy production and they had to ship something kinda janky and broken. The songs were all meh. It’s unclear what they really wanted the heart of the story to be. I think it could’ve been improved substantially if they made it about Moana growing into a good/competent leader, and to do that they should have given us more conflict between…

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  I didn’t expect this to be so fun. I thought it was better than both Barbie and Oppenheimer, which I moderately liked. It has a lot of heart and personality. Hugh Grant was a great choice. Lots of clever little callbacks. Well-paced. I’ll probably rewatch it a 3rd time l

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  The Mask 1994

  ★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025

  I watched this a bunch of times as a kid, then mostly forgot about it until it popped up on Netflix and I gave it another shot. it’s… interesting. feels dated, obviously, but it still mostly works, and has character. Idk what I think about it. The past is a different country, maybe? But what do I even mean by that? well… it uses a bunch of tropes that we likely wouldn’t use so directly anymore. Though you could say…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Jan 2025 1

  Barbenheimer was a great post-Covid cultural phenomenon and I’m glad I watched the movies but idk if I’d say I loved it. It was fun, I’m in no rush to watch it again, but I’d leave it on if it were playing in the background. Best thing about this movie might be the song Billie Eilish did for it

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