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  Stephen Curry: Underrated 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2023 4

  SUNDANCE 2023, FILM NO. 9
  
  Brought down the fucking house. A masterpiece of the rare harmony between didactic/analytical editing vs. emotional editing. This thing moves with equal parts grace and precision.

  Steph deserves his flowers while he can smell 'em.

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jul 2023 1

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

  We've been chasing a phantom.

  Where to start!

  This was never going to be as good as MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT for me. I knew that going in. With my expectations firmly in check, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (don't make a BIRDMAN joke, don't make a BIRDMAN joke) was still a goddamn barn burner. An absolute high-flying circus of a movie that shouldn't work, but works magnificently.

  The story is, surprisingly, abundantly understandable for a MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE…

Recent reviews

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  The Swan 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  Ernie had been given a rifle for his birthday. He took the gun and a box of bullets and went to see what he could kill.

  An study of the seemingly endless cruelty of young boys left unattended. So good.

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  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  Henry walked for an hour. The evening was cool and pleasant. The city still wide awake. He could feel the thick bankroll in the inside pocket of his jacket. He patted it gently. A lot of money for an hour's work.

  I don't know if I've read through an author's body of work as thoroughly and as enthusiastically as Roald Dahl. Not even my beloved Haruki Murakami, probably. I must've been about 8, my oldest sister had moved out and…

Popular reviews

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  The King's Man 2021

  ★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2021 17

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

  I desperately wish I was making this up, but there's a scene in THE KING'S MAN where Rhys Ifans sexually devours an entire cake while Ralph Fiennes sits back and basically edges and moans very loudly??

  What the fuck!

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  Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga 2020

  ★ Watched 26 Jun 2020

  Let Pierce Brosnan sing, you cowards.