Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  A funnier, goofier version of Snowpiercer, which shares a lot of similar themes (class struggle, limited resource allocation). What works works exceptionally well (Robert Pattinson, in particular), while what doesn’t work isn’t enough to detract too much from the movie. Enjoyable, but not anywhere near the masterpiece that Parasite was.

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

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

Popular reviews

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Jul 2023

  Finally, a “Part One” that feels like it tells a whole story, while still setting up an even larger adventure. That’s not necessarily a requirement to be great, but the exceptions to that are extremely rare.

  Haley Atwell and Shea Whigham are welcome additions to the ensemble, with Atwell bringing the same charm she brought to Peggy Carter while Whigham is finally allowed to stretch his comedy roots (the runner of him grabbing people’s faces is the best gag in…

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2024

  Exceptionally cast, Saturday Night feels a bit of maybe a lot like an episode of the show whose birth it is portraying. It’s frenzied, the writing quality is extremely varied, and everything seems just a bit heightened. Some of it works (the decision to film on 16mm), some of it less so (Alan Zweibel being hired 30 minutes before the show, almost everything with the network censor). There are guest stars (J. K. Simmons! Matthew Rhys! Brad Garrett!), all of whom…