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Recent reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Aug 2023

  Felt entirely justified seeing this in the 70mm IMAX projection. The scope and scale truly rewards it. Not just a technical achievement, which is so often the case for a Nolan film, but also in casting and writing. The Nolan info dump is here and I am still not a fan.

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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★½ Watched 02 Jun 2023 1

  Pass comprehensive right-to-repair legislation.

Popular reviews

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★★★½ Rewatched 10 Jan 2022

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

  I have this theory that the best of the post-Connery Bond films are not those directed by people who really love the series, but those directed by people who see its many faults. And this one is mighty good in part because of that.

  I appreciate how this resolves the arc of Craig's films, even if it was forcibly retconned into being. This was a well-told and gripping way to end this reboot experiment. It's just retro enough that it…

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  Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Aug 2018

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

  The big twist is obvious from the start. The ending is obvious. There are a lot of clichés. It doesn’t matter because the screenwriters know you know all of this, and they still make it clever by a mile.