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  Saw X 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Oct 2023

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

  I hope they make twelve of these movies where it’s just always 2 months before John Kramer is gonna die, but John and Amanda go absconding in beautiful countries where they do some jigsaw traps and the subjects are just scheming villains who 100% deserve to have to cut their own legs off and suck out their bone marrow.

  Basically turn this entire series into Slasher James Bond. Please fucking do it.

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Sep 2023

  Beautiful as always Not nearly as quietly devastating as The Wind Rises, but this still proves the man hasn’t lost a step. Somehow still innovating his animation at 82 years old.

Popular reviews

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  Speed Racer 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jun 2016 6

  If your eyes don't swell up at least twice before you bawl your eyes out during the Grand Prix... well, I don't know. You probably don't have a soul.

  "This is my religion."

  Couldn't have said it better myself.

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  Captain America: Civil War 2016

  ★ Added 7

  Ho-boy, there's a lot of bullshit to unpack here.

  This is a very dumb movie, but I might be more forgiving of it if it wasn't so blatantly tone deaf. But Marvel's need for its films since IRON MAN 3 to be "broadly topical" manifests here in a way where it's not just toothless, but instead it becomes Dangerously Ignorant.

  But yeah, that's what happens when you try to make your movie as "fun" and "inclusive" as possible while still…