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Recent reviews

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  Reptile 2023

  ★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2023

  An adequate cop mystery drama with some good performances—it’s always great to see Alicia Silverstone doing things—that is nonetheless a bit too mixed up and convoluted and slow. I will forget that I saw in a month.

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  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2023

  If you are looking for the classic TMNT story and characterization... this ain't that. This is an even more wildly different take on the Turtle heroes that any we have seen before.

  Still, that's what different visions are for. We've had SO MANY iterations of these characters before; why not make room for this one, too?

  The humor occasionally lands, but this flick isn't as funny as I wanted it to be. But still... I bet it hits with kids…

Popular reviews

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  Midsommar 2019

  ½ Added

  No movie aside from Fight Club has ever made me feel as much like the version I saw had to have been "broken" than Midsommar. I know many folks who think this movie is a wonder, and it causes me to question my own sanity to no end, because I found this movie to be a wreck on so very many levels.

  I will copy the review I wrote in the immediate aftermath of watching Midsommar below for more in-depth…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2023 2

  Well shit. That was amazing.

  EDIT: It's marveling me how brave this movie is. I thought Into The Spider-Verse was a visual spectacle. This movie is virtually nothing BUT brave artistic choices that are bound to leave some viewers frustrated or annoyed, but the creators went for it anyway. There are swaths of dialogue with characters frantically talking over each other, and you can't understand a damn thing. Another bold, potentially audience-alienating choice this film made and just pulled off.…