Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Air 2023

  ★★★ Watched 26 May 2023

  Competent enough as a film, but absolutely masterful as proof that there is no story of Black excellence that cannot be repurposed to center and celebrate mediocre White men.

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  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

  ★½ Watched 22 May 2023

  Everyone: “The worst part of every Marvel movie is the last half hour when it inevitably degenerates into messy, noisy, incomprehensible CGI nonsense.”

  Marvel: “So you’re saying the whole movie should be like that?”

Popular reviews

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ★½ Added

  The writing is terrible. The fight scenes are messy and badly choreographed. It might be the worst looking Marvel movie ever, and that is a low bar to clear. And the whole thing seems to be a series of contrivances designed to pander to nostalgia for things I can't believe anyone is nostalgic for. Have they really succeeded in lowering expectations this far?

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  Glass Onion 2022

  ★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2022

  Undeniably fun, but there's a disappointing waft of sequelitis here, with a more exotic location, flashier sets and setpieces, a more cartoonish approach, and considerably less heart than the original.