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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023

  Watched 11 Jul 2023

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

  Major missed opportunity not ending the movie five minutes earlier on a literal cliffhanger. The movies are back, baby!

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  The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023

  ★★½ Watched 23 May 2023

  My friend Lucas, who has never played a Mario game, confidently announced, “It’s Thomas Bomb!” every time a Bullet Bill appeared onscreen

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  Inside Out 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jun 2015

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

  I’ve never reacted so emotionally to a film as I did to Inside Out. Like, for about 10 minutes, I was consciously willing myself not to sob audibly in my crowded theater. (I nearly couldn’t help it when Joy started crying over the forgotten memories she found in the Abyss.) That was the case primarily for two reasons, I think: First, because I moved to Chicago about three weeks ago, which involved saying goodbye to the city where I’d lived…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  Watched 12 Apr 2022

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

  Amazing film about—among many (!) other things—the possibility of making an occasional miraculous choice outside of our usual broken ruts by tapping into something outside of ourselves, if we have the courage/humility/audacity/faith to do something statistically unlikely

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