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Con Air 1997

★★★★ Watched 28 Jul 2019

A poignant sequel to Raising Arizona, in which Ed finally is able to conceive, but H.I.'s lawbreaking habits get him into worse trouble than ever before and he has to fight to see the child he never thought he'd have.
Cats 2019

Watched 29 Dec 2019

I could not ask for more from this shot in the dark.
Take a look at this thing, whether sober or stoned!
You can say that it bites, but it will leave a mark.
There was talk of a blockbuster. Who could have known?
Oh the criticals scar, and the criticals boo
Criticals boo as criticals should
Criticals should, so criticals pan
Criticals pan and criticals boo.
On arrival it's dead, yet it lives--it's in heat!
Such immense talent spent…

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022

★★★★½ Rewatched 04 Dec 2023

It's easy to overrate this in the wake of how badly Wish whiffed upon its star, but then I'm pretty sure I underrated it the first time, so up it goes. A villain who makes both the hero's hair stand on end along with yours is doing things right.
Wish 2023

★ Watched 27 Nov 2023

For the first 30 minutes of this I wondered about the responses I'd been hearing, that it was some ungodly, uncanny simulacrum of a Disney film. Sure its central conceit of a kingdom where wishes are kept and only occasionally granted is labored and unintuitive; yes, the animation splits the difference between Pixarian photorealism and post-Spiderverse stylization and gets the worst of both worlds, reducing the detail to the textures and models while illuminating them with unflattering physically-based lighting and…

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009

½ Watched 20 Jul 2023 5

Greta Gerwig's Barbie is being regarded in film circles as a crossing of the Rubicon, the final triumph of capital over creativity in selling audiences a glorified toy commercial. It's not that the movie could be bad; the real concern is that it could be good, that a product of such mercenary intention could also have quality that could be better spent on actual art. This is an understandable concern; it's simple and reassuring for bad intentions to lead to…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023

★★ Watched 05 Apr 2023

I can't in good conscience call this a worse film than the misbegotten live-action adaptation from 1993, not even for a contrarian hot take, but I will credit the earlier film for being surprising. A viewer could not know what to expect from that disaster, for not even the people making it knew what to expect. The only surprises to be had here are the wretched needle drops. (Is "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" sharted into the opening scene of…