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Recent reviews

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  May December 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

  This is just what grown-ups do.

  I could feel the third-degree burn through the screen.

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  Memory 2022

  ★★ Watched 29 Nov 2023

  They thought they could Pavlov us into liking a bad Liam Neeson movie by casting Guy Pearce in another one about someone who writes notes to himself on his body because he has memory loss.

Popular reviews

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  Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 May 2015 4

  George Miller is a mad scientist. I admire those of you able to write these long, structured reviews after one viewing of this film, because I walked out of the theater with more feelings than coherent thoughts. So I apologize in advance if this review comes across as rambling. I have mostly flashes of imagery and brief moments playing out in my head (similar to Max's hallucinations), with Junkie XL's exhilarating score playing along with them. I don't think I…

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  Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 12 Sep 2014

  I walked into the cinema with high expectations for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and it exceeded them. It nailed pretty much everything it set out to accomplish. As a comic book movie, it's a ton of fun, with larger than life characters leaping off of the page and into a grounded, but not too grounded, world. As a political thriller, it calls attention to current events, like government monitoring and eliminating perceived threats without due process. I love The…