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Recent reviews

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  The Quiet Man 1952

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Was attempting the “stay awake challenge” during the first third of this and I failed 😞 Still not used to Ford’s love for wacky villagers—somewhat of a problem here given that they make up, conservatively, half the runtime. But then this becomes an endless Tom & Jerry fight through the Irish countryside with a million extras and suddenly I’m locked in.

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  Where Is the Friend's House? 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Nowruz Mubarak! This is just delightful in the ways it organically rearranges itself from abject naturalism to vibrant comic scenarios, sometimes in the span of seconds.

Popular reviews

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  My dad always refers to seeing 𝘚𝘱𝘺 starring Melissa McCarthy as one of the great filmgoing experiences of his life because of what he (somewhat erroneously) remembers as people literally "rofling" in response to the espionage hijinks (let's say the DVD copy he bought at Target shortly thereafter is showing its wear at this point)—audience reaction to this last night was somewhere in the same vicinity. Haven't laughed this hard at (and felt so much professional jealousy about) a new film in quite some time. Genuine inventive fun (and all the other superlatives ppl on this app have been saying).

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  Barbie as Rapunzel 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Nov 2020 3

  Stranger and more ambitious than what Disney achieved like a decade later with 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥. This is the definitive version of the story, gay coded Nazi weasel/ferret thing and all.

  Also, at some point we're all going to have to admit that 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 ripped this off...