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  • Knives Out

    Knives Out 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Dec 2019

    5/5 stars. 10/10 grade. A spot on my top 100 of all time.

    Looper and The Last Jedi are masterpieces and so is Knives Out.

    “Have some more cookies!”

    CINEMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away 2001

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Oct 2019

    The best animated film of all time.

  • Avengers: Endgame

    Avengers: Endgame 2019

    ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Apr 2019 13

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

    You could not live with your own failure, and where did that bring you? Back to me.

    Held off on talking about it at length and giving a grade when I saw it on Friday night because something about Endgame wasn't sitting right with me. Even now I can't put my finger on exactly what it was but it was there.

    So I talked about it with friends earlier today and saw it again a few hours ago without the…

  • Skyfall

    Skyfall 2012

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Oct 2021

    Definitely a different watch post-No Time to Die but one thing doesn’t change: how much it slaps ass.

  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018

    ★★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2018 8

    Just because the "j.K. rOwLiNg HaS gOnE fUlL gEoRgE lUcAs" narrative is easy doesn't mean it's right, guys.

    Maybe my love for this world is blinding me or whatever, but I had a good time with this. The episodic storytelling from current franchises has really been a beating to experience the last few years, so seeing a franchise written like a book is rather refreshing.

    I like the narrative Rowling is building. Whereas some of you guys think she needs…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2024

    I have to admit I liked but didn't love the first half (an inverse of my experience with Dune) and then Austin Butler came on-screen and took part in a monochrome gladiator match to destroy the remains of a rival house under a dying black star and from there...... it had me. I would do so many crimes for Denis if he asked me to.

    The guy is on the heater of all heaters with Dune: Part Two and as…

  • Toy Story 4

    Toy Story 4 2019

    ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jun 2019 6

    The Road to 4: Trash

    Forky is an ICON.

    And this movie is very, very good. Although it falls short of the impossible standard of meeting the quality of the first 3, this epilogue is still the funniest, smartest, most engaging and clever animated movie of the year.

    But.... and I say this as a person who sobbed during Toy Story 3 mere minutes before walking to the theater for 4... this didn’t have the resonance I thought it’d have. I’ve heard…

  • The Order

    The Order 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 10 Dec 2024

    A textbook example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Cat and mouse thrillers are up there as one of my favorite sub genres, and this one ranks up with the best of them thanks to Justin Kurzel's steady hand, rock-solid performances and crisp visuals.

    The pacific northwest is having a moment in film! Please keep those tax breaks coming, because I need more rivers, forests and lakes and less deserts at the movies.

    If you liked this, give Oliver Stone's Talk Radio a watch!

  • Inside Out 2

    Inside Out 2 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2024

    These movies are a terrific resource for all of us to understand what’s happening in our own minds as well as others. Might be the last justified Pixar sequel for a while, let’s all try to enjoy it.

  • Wonka

    Wonka 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2024

    This took me too long to get to. I should have been there for you earlier, Paul King. You have delighted me yet again, sir.

    Please continue making fun, happy movies under two hours. If the Academy doesn’t recognize you for your skills, History will.

  • The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023

    Gets into Oscar Bait Weepy territory a little bit, but manages to pull those moments off pretty seamlessly. Durkin keeps the pace moving despite knowing where it’s all going, and treats the characters with a tender hand. As with all great sports movies, it would have been just as effective if it were hockey, baseball, etc.

    Really impressed with this.

  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers 2023

    ★★★★½ Watched 05 Nov 2023

    Stunning in its simplicity, an aesthetic dream, a real deal Christmas classic.

    Not much more I could have ever asked for.

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