Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Dec 2022

  Too long, has the same boring world building as the original, and the high frame rate was distracting, but damn that was some good Movie Magic!!

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2022

  Masterfully constructed genre elements but thematically and narratively underdeveloped

Popular reviews

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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Sep 2021

  3.75 stars; a great blend of wuxia and western action movie conventions, ultimately let down by having to be shoehorned into the Marvel movie formula (an overlong 3rd act, an over-reliance on CGI – albeit less so than in other MCU films, etc.)
  Overall I really enjoyed it, but I expect the series to go downhill as its ending sets up the sequels to have to shoehorn in even more deus ex machina-laden superhero conventions for the purposes of MCU cross-promotion.

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  Murder on the Orient Express 1974

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2021

  A tour de force of costuming, set design, and over the top yet not overly campy acting. I was captivated for the whole duration despite already knowing the ending