Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Expend4bles 2023

  ★½ Watched 21 Sep 2023

  Leave early enough and perhaps it will be refund4ble.

  Read the full review at Midwest Film Journal

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  City by the Sea 2002

  ★★★½ Rewatched 30 Jul 2023

  Arguably the film most single-handedly saved by Robert De Niro’s skills.

  Read the full essay at Midwest Film Journal

Recent reviews

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  My Soul to Take 2010

  ★★★ Watched 19 Sep 2023 1

  HoopTober #6
  A Film by Wes Craven

  "You don't know fear, Bug. You puked on Brandon O'Neil. You're a hero of the revolution."

  From the jump, Wes Craven's conscious choice to fuck it and chuck it establishes the objectively terrible, but richly entertaining, ineptitude of "My Soul to Take."

  I mean, the first 10 minutes alone represent a rat-a-tat parade of serial murder, delusion, multiple personality, multiple kill shots to the dome, even more resurrections, a big-time ambulance crash, and…

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  Theater Camp 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Sep 2023

  Often laugh-aloud funny in its satirical realm but its attempts at emotional engagement mostly cheat by using the tear stick.

Popular reviews

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  Riding the Bus with My Sister 2005

  ★ Watched 13 Jul 2019 2

  There’s an Ari Aster movie in here somewhere.

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  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

  ★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2023 5

  1. That pizza they ate looked awful.

  2. There are talking-dog films with fewer cutaway reaction shots to the talking dog than there are to Evangeline Lilly smiling or scowling here.

  3. That's probably how you work around a vaccination protocol.

  4. Kathryn Newton is perhaps the worst casting decision in the MCU yet. She's been fine in other things but is dead behind the eyes here, with the look of inheritance without investment. Terrible.

  5. So the evolution of…