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Recent reviews

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Aug 2023

  More of the same jingoistic fanfare as it’s predecessor, with extra saccharine syrup drizzled over the top. Just as before, though, my simple ape brain loves seeing big plane go fast and other plane go boom

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2023

  A fairly dull and unambiguous first-act (namely the bucket after sopping bucket of “chosen one” rhetoric) sets the stage for an explosively unbound moneyshot of creativity in the second act and on. If it’s not a beautiful shot, it’s a perfectly scored scene. If it’s neither of those, it’s a delightfully juvenile gag that never manages to overstay it’s welcome, like a belch of flatulence that lingers just long enough to tickle your nose. There are imperfections aplenty to be found when…

Popular reviews

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  How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps! 2016

  ★★★½ Rewatched 28 Jan 2018

  7 minutes of satirizing viral weight loss culture while offering a frankly heartwarming and bizarrely inspirational story. It's funny, sincere, and stylish. Most of all, it is worth 7 minutes of your time

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  The Florida Project 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2018

  For a three year stretch before their divorce when I was 7, my parents would take their income tax disbursement check and take me on trips to Disney or Universal Studios in Orlando. I was a child of rural Floridian poverty, so these trips to Orlando felt absolutely magical, being in a big (in comparison) city and staying overnight in a place that wasn’t my own or my grandparents’. We stayed in hotels similar to the ones featured in The…