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Favorite films

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • The Prince of Egypt

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★½

  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★★½

  • Warfare

    ★★★★

  • A Minecraft Movie

    ★★★½

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★½ Watched

Leading boldly with emotion, and proving once again that for Tom Cruise age is merely something to scoff in the face of, “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” is a visceral, non-stop, globe-trotting roller coaster ride that caps off the series that forever altered the brain chemistry of the action film genre; and represents a picture made by individuals who, in an industry that consistently settles for mediocrity, continue to hold fast to the impossible as their immovable standard in quality.

Thunderbolts*

2025

★★★★½ 6

Unexpectedly emotional, artistically realized, and entertaining to a surprising degree that harkens back to the old days of the Guardians taking the entire world by storm, “Thunderbolts*” marks a profound ushering in to a new age of Marvel stories, a metaphorical boat-load of gasoline to stoke the fire of superhero cinema that in recent years had nearly gone cold, a tried and true reminder that anybody can be somebody, and remarkably, one of Marvel Studios’ most enthralling endeavors of all time.

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Warfare

2025

★★★★ Watched

Uncomfortable, tortuous, and unsatisfying in its dreadful and horrifying reality, “Warfare” can only be described as a “fictional documentary” that fills every second of the time it commands from its audience, a tragic rehashing of a war that never should have been waged, and an experience that tells a truth so authentic that I never plan to put myself through it again.

A Minecraft Movie

2025

★★★½ 1

You would never normally catch me saying this, but I think that after two hours of watching Steve over-enthusiastically name iconic objects in a video game, my brain has been completely rewired; There is something to be said about a movie that isn’t good by conventional standards but simply good because it’s an incomparable good time.

Whenever a new brain rot joke arises, I feel as though there is a limited timespan where the joke is funny to all, and…

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Captain America: Brave New World

2025

★★★½ Watched

While it’s always exciting to have an excuse to go to the theater and witness the latest addition to the MCU, and beyond refreshing to finally have a Marvel project that stitches together several loose ends that have been sitting completely untouched since as far back as 2008, it absolutely kills me to have to say that “Captain America: Brave New World” makes the most of the hand it was dealt, but cannot totally escape being another Marvel project with a clear…

Dune: Part Two

2024

★★★★★ 1

Wow.

As of the writing of this review, I’m trying to relish in this moment and understand that we are all alive to have witnessed something unbelievable and singular.

Denis Villenueve’s “Dune: Part Two” is a storytelling colossus that transcends “blockbuster” status as one of the most expansive, significant, magnificent, incomparable films to ever be made. Its cinematography is visually arresting, its symphonic score is unendingly ethereal and spiritual, and its epic-scaled narrative direction is obsessively and meticulously formulated in…

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