Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 06 May 2023

  I went in with low expectations given the disappointment that was the 2nd Guardians movie and a lot of my favorite film critics describing it as schmaltzy, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much Guardians 3 exceeded my expectations

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  How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Apr 2023

  Well directed and works great as a heist/thriller genre piece, but its characters are underwritten and one dimensional

Popular reviews

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2022

  Masterfully constructed genre elements but thematically and narratively underdeveloped

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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.