Narg
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Bio: I have only recently begun to feel like I truly "understand" film and the saying that the more you know the more you know you don't know applies here. My ratings are purely based on personal enjoyment and I update and change them pretty liberally, so it's not super exact. . Generally if something is over 75 I think it's a certified banger, 75 to 50 is anything from pretty good to average, and anything below 50 ranges from below average to terrible. If you want to argue with me and call me a moron feel free to do so.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) - Rated 08 Nov 2023
"About America's evil and greed in the same way as Wolf of Wall Street or any of Marty's gangster films; but here, as in The Irishman, there is no veil of intelligence or cool over the monsters. They are stupid and somewhat unknowable, so all we are left with is the cold reality of their actions. Beautiful, brutal, austere and complexly emotional."
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| 66 64% |  |
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - Rated 01 Apr 2023
"Indulgent in scale and length, but more importantly it is stuffed full of insane action choreography, in the most insane places, with an insane camera giving us a buffet of violence. Somewhat related: have we reached a point where action choreography can be pretentious? Like, there's a segment of fandom that "know" a lot about fight choreography and there is a relatively recent market in the U.S. for action that is not heartpounding or shocking or visceral, but instead is intricate and tactical."
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) - Rated 08 Dec 2023
"Supremely my jam and stunningly beautiful. It is an examination of how to rebuild the soul in the aftermath of grief, where the supernatural is a representation of the inner world. The film is also just as much about the ending of things as it is about rebirth and renewal. A look at the mystical, the nonsensical, the apocalyptic, and the most excruciatingly powerful love that we contain inside ourselves. Miyazaki is and forever will be the man."
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Godzilla Minus One (2023) - Rated 26 Dec 2023
"Godzilla's return to Japan in Shin Godzilla was a return to his being more natural disaster than animal, only now as a reaction to the Fukishima Disaster and the bureacratic failings of the event instead of the bomb. Minus One goes even more directly to Godzilla's roots as a great remix of the 1954 original. Here the big lizard is not just a force against humanity but a force against one human in particular, with Godzilla being something akin to our main character's great white whale."
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - Rated 31 Mar 2023
"Captures a lot of the fun of the game: going on adventures with a found family who help carry out your plans of suspect quality, a world that has room for both a bard who you like even as he tries to rob you and an immortal paladin who takes himself very seriously, and also all kinds of villainy from the backstabbing conman to the evil red wizard set on creating an army of the undead. Good fun."
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) - Rated 16 Jun 2023
"The 1st was an explosion of innovative animation, a great superhero origin that also did way more than run of the mill versions of that story. The 2nd is so visually in control of its madness, so confident, it is incredible incredible incredible. The only problem is the ending having characters speaking about different things but still somehow being on the same emotional wavelength, which felt slightly incongruous."
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Barbie (2023) - Rated 22 Jul 2023
"Sacrifices greatness on the alter of palatability, which is inevitable when the best chance to reach mass audiences with a progressive message is through adaptation of a corporate product. The weirdness of this film is not weird enough to weird anyone out. Also, Barbie and Ken are jokes with cohesive arcs (which is good) while the real world characters are just jokes (which is bad), which means that the massive diatribe about gender is given by a lame character that I didn't care about."
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - Rated 16 Apr 2023
"Illumination is so creatively vacuous that instead of telling a story they told a cliffnotes summary of a story instead. The movie is still fun mostly because Mario music is great and the sheer novelty of seeing a Mario movie that isn't actively atrocious while capturing some of the kinetic fun of Mario games is enough to keep the sheeple like me entertained."
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Air (2023) - Rated 13 Nov 2023
"Well made, but unimportant. At one point Jason Bateman starts talking about his divorce and his daughter and how Damon's risky approach to the Jordan deal could cost him his job, and I was like "Oh, something that matters!" Then the movie forgets about that."
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The Killer (2023) - Rated 11 Nov 2023
"When money and responsibility flow in a way that partitions culpability, who has to get their hands dirty, who knows what, and who makes the decisions, all the loose ends are going to be part of the "many". Assassins need a union so they can develop some class consciousness."
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