Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Dead Don't Hurt 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2023

  Want this to be at least a 4 star, because Vicky Krieps, as absolutely always, knocks this movie on its ass, but never had a movie needed its bad guys less than this movie. If it only had just been mortensen and krieps on their own making it in the west.

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  NYAD 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Sep 2023

  A really cool flick. I can't help but feel that I'd prefer Vasarhelyi + Chin's documentary version of this instead, but Annette Bening is great, Jodie Foster is great, Rhys Ifans is great, even if it feels like the film is aiming right down the middle.

Popular reviews

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  Bottoms 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Aug 2023

  A comedy finally brave enough to be very funny

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  X-Men: First Class 2011

  ★★½ Watched 07 May 2023

  This has really dropped in my esteem since the last time I watched this. Fassbender is still very good, McAvoy is pretty good, everyone else is very bad? I like every actor in this I think otherwise, so I assume it’s not their faults.

  The action is either badly choreographed or very badly blocked, and the constant poorly composited wide shots cutting to green screen close ups (banshee, angel, especially) during action scenes feels cheaper every year. The visible wire…