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Recent reviews

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  100 Meters 2016

  ★ Watched 06 Jun 2024

  Quite possibly the most offensively by the numbers movie I have ever seen. This somehow does less than push no boundaries or take risks; it has the blindingly obvious goal to conform to conventions as much as possible, and for that I have no respect.

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  Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jul 2024

  Unbelievable stuff. There are some genuinely mind-boggling sequences in this movie. I can't stress it enough; the fact that this even exists is incredible. The colors, the action, and the characters are all so vivid. Like a train nearly skirting off the rails for two hours straight. Insane and awesome from front to back.

Popular reviews

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  Burning 2018

  ★★ Watched 12 Sep 2022

  (Very minor content spoilers ahead)

  Steven Yeun's performance in this is incredible. The sense of tension that he brings to each scene just by being present is great. However, besides him, not much else in this movie really caught me in any meaningful way.

  I feel like a lot more could have been done here, and in a MUCH shorter time frame. A massive portion of the 2 1/2 hour run time is just pretty shots of the countryside, which…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Apr 2024

  I'm not giving this five stars because I think it's perfect, but because so much of it worked so well for me. The movie crystallized a very specific modern-day horror that is hard to put into words, so putting it to screen makes it even more impressive to me. I only had two real problems; one being Nick Offerman as President. My problem doesn't lie with Offerman himself, but in the fact that, to me, the role of "President" is…