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  Dear Evan Hansen 2021

  ★★★ Watched by Adrian vom Baur 12 May 2022

  Ben Platt is normally a good-looking man (and a terrific singer), but his attempt to appear as a young teenager has him looking like some kind of cg gnome from the uncanny valley. In order for this story to work, you need to feel a lot of empathy for Evan Hansen even as he does very stupid, bad things, and that’s definitely made harder by Platt’s distracting look and awkward performance. 

  The songs are total bangers, though! And Julianne Moore, Amy Adams, and Kaitlyn Dever do great work.

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  Nobody 2021

  ★★★ Watched by Adrian vom Baur 18 Mar 2022

  What do we call this genre? Dadsploitation?

  The action in this is pretty entertaining, but the story about the sad dad who needs to kill a whole bunch of evil Russians so that his family will respect him again didn’t do much for me.

Popular reviews

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  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007

  ★★★½ Watched by Adrian vom Baur 26 Sep 2013

  I'm confused: where exactly in the "Before..." series does this one fit?

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  Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched by Adrian vom Baur 19 May 2015

  After all the praise I'd heard, I was expecting this to be one of the greatest action movies ever made. Then I saw it, and it was somehow even better than that! Mad Max: Fury Road may well be the single greatest pure action film I've seen. An exhilarating experience. Everyone who cares about cinema needs to see this.