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  • Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

    ★★★★

  • Fly Me to the Moon

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  • The Instigators

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  • Ali

    Ali 2001

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Mar 2018 3

    The first words spoken to Ali in this film ask, accusingly and dismissively, what he is running from, implying a force that is responsible for his action, something that makes him run other than his own will. The film soon makes clear that this is not the case; even when the film flashes back to Ali’s younger days it shows a path of propulsion and portrays Ali as a pure force of individualism that justly and inevitable will achieve independence…

  • Collateral

    Collateral 2004

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Jul 2017 5

    It keeps getting harder and harder to come up with a reason why this isn't Mann's best film (other than the obvious anwser that Heat is just simply one of the most watchable films ever). Structurally it's quietly his most ambitious: it's almost too easy to imagine a version of this story where the cab driver serves as a bit of background flavor and a vessel for Jada Pinkett Smith to deliver exposition to and then disappears for good after…

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  • The Roommate

    The Roommate 2011

    ★★½ Watched 08 Oct 2024

    You've seen this sort of movie done dozen of times but never before (or after) done with such daring hat choices.

  • Mr. McMahon

    Mr. McMahon 2024

    ★★ Watched 03 Oct 2024

    There's wasn't any world where this documentary based almost solely on interviews was going to cut through all the carnies' bullshit and get some actually truth out of them but it should have been about how deep of a hole these's people are willingly to bury with themselves with their lies. Instead it doesn't have much to say, questioning some bald-faced lies but accepting and putting forth a lot as truth, either because Chris Smith and Co. were ill prepared…

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  • God's Not Dead

    God's Not Dead 2014

    ½ Watched 08 May 2014 16

    You know that scene in 21 Jump Street when Channing Tatum writes a bunch of 4s on the whiteboard, says some gibberish, and yells "Fuck you science!" while high on drugs? Well God's Not Dead is basically the 113 minute version of that scene.

  • Psycho

    Psycho 1998

    ★½ Watched 24 Dec 2014 19

    Unfortunately this disproves my theory that any classic film would be better if it included a scene of Vince Vaughn jerking off.

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