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mm has written 214 reviews for films during 2018.

Mary Poppins Returns 2018

★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Dec 2018 2

Emily Blunt.... is like, a real person.... can you imagine that?
The Big Short 2015

★★★½ Rewatched 25 Dec 2018

I still don’t understand a damn thing anyone in this is talking about, but it’s really good.
Even more psyched to see Vice in a few days.
Grade: 7/10
Home Alone 1990

★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Dec 2018

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Merry Christmas, everybody! 🎄❄️🎅🏾
Bumblebee 2018

★★½ Watched 22 Dec 2018 7

I don't dislike this anywhere near as much as Aquaman but my problems with it are similar.
Kubo and the Two Strings is a creative masterpiece. Bumblebee is as mediocre as you can get.
Unlike the fish movie, I can't lay all the blame at Travis Knight's feet as he didn't write it, but I have no idea how he could go from something so cinematically rich to a concept and script as tired as this is.
Unless he did…
Roe v. Wade 2019

★★★★★ Watched 19 Dec 2018 3

The cinematic event of a generation as it's the biggest collection of dumbfucks since the 2016 republican national convention.
Milo
Tomi
Jon Voight
Jamie Kennedy?
This is the avengers of fucking morons.
Here's the synopsis, which is the funniest thing I have ever read:
"The 2019 film Roe v. Wade is based on the American landmark decision of the same name, issued in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or…
Elf 2003

★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Dec 2018 2

Takes me back to the last day before Christmas break in elementary school and junior high, stuffing my face with candy and cookies and laughing at this with my friends.
It you don’t love this, you’re a bad person 🤷‍♂️
Grade: 9.5/10
Vox Lux 2018

★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2018

Pop music as a shared song of tragedy.
Violence in the mainstream.
Celebrity rising from carnage.
Not sure if Natalie Portman was in the same movie as everyone else but damn it did she make some fucking choices.
This movie is harrowing, awkward and absurd. I wish I liked it more.
Grade: 6.5/10
Roma 2018

★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2018 5

*sneakily gives this 3 stars hoping no one will notice*
Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018

★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Dec 2018

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

A masterclass in big-budget filmmaking brought to you by the guy who set and has been holding the standard as long as I've been alive.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is pretty much a masterpiece. It nails big moments, small moments and medium-sized moments with the same level of intensity and focus, while never stiffing the audience on the cloak-and-dagger spy stuff we go nuts over.
King to rook 4 for McQuarrie as the best action director working today.
Your move, Nolan.
Grade: 9.5/10
Mary Poppins Returns 2018

★★★★½ Watched 18 Sep 2018 1

I have a rule when it comes to grades.
If I cry due to an emotional bond I've built with a character, the movie gets 4 ½ stars immediately. If a movie is genuinely able to pull an emotion like that out of me, a person who occasionally closes themselves off from those things, I can’t pretend it’s anything other than a huge feat.
Rather than name the number of times I cried (and embarrass myself), I’ll highlight the one…
Dave 1993

★★★★½ Watched 08 Dec 2018

The Oliver Stone cameo is now my favorite movie cameo of all time.
Let me be clear, this movie doesn't make a lick of sense whatsoever. The main premise is the Clark Kent glasses phenomenon except it's 10 times more unbelievable. If you pull strings, this will unravel completely.
And yet, 90's movies have built-in charm that I am completely helpless towards. You keep your 80's silliness. I'll happily take my warm 90's sweetness.
I will watch this at least 100 more times.
Grade: 9/10
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2018

EDIT: THIS ONLY COST $90 MILLION TO MAKE?!?!?!?!?
Even though this was certified a couple months ago with the video-game, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is yet another piece of evidence that no single property has had a better year than Spider-Man in 2018.
And Spider-Verse just might be the best of them all.
Eye-popping visuals, pitch-perfect comedy, touching dramatic moments, the best Stan Lee cameo, and a fantastic script add up to make this a movie you need to see…

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