Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2023 2

  I wanted to like it more!

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ★★½ Watched 06 Aug 2022

  Kinda annoyed by how well the multi-Spider-man stuff worked on me, probably largely out of nostalgia for the Raimi era (I’ve never seen the Garfield ones but he was very good here). 

  Watching Multiverse of Madness immediately beforehand made it kind of baffling that Raimi directed that and not this; saddling him with a character as insipid as Doctor Strange, whose powers are so arbitrary and ill-defined in all these movies so as to be ridiculous, really feels like we lost out.

Popular reviews

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  The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones 2013

  ★½ Watched 20 Aug 2013 3

  THE MORTAL INCESTUMENTS: CITY OF AWKWARD BONERS

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  Passengers 2016

  ★½ Watched 15 Dec 2016 7

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

  I haven't had time to write a full review of this as I only saw it not 12 hours ago, but I can't help but jot down something about Passengers' unpleasant undercurrent. Rewatching the trailers and marketing material, I couldn't believe how misleading they were about something very important to the film's core premise:

  Only Chris Pratt's Jim woke up early due to a malfunction on the ship. The first solid half hour is him moping about the Avalon starship,…