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2024

★★★ Watched 10 May 2025

I was fully prepared not to find this funny, but it took me by surprise. I don't have children, never will, and yet ended up laughing pretty consistently. I don't watch his late night show, I don't think I've ever seen a single clip even on YouTube, but was underwhelmed by his stint on SNL, so I was quite surprised by how entertaining this special ended up being. Pretty funny stuff. Nothing surprising, nothing groundbreaking, somewhat cliche at times, but witty and well delivered and not a bad way to spend an hour.

2024

★ Watched 10 May 2025

For a comedy show this sure was not very funny...

I have never seen Youssef's sitcom, nor his previous comedy special. Only watched this because it was nominated for a Golden Globe. In fact, after checking IMDB, the only thing I've ever seen him in is "Poor Things" and he's the 8th most memorable cast member in that film.

As an introduction to Youssef's comedy, I'm pretty underwhelmed. This special was really preachy, meandering, and had one of the strangest…

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2019

★★ Watched 28 Sep 2020

I feel awkward rating this 20 minute short doc so low, but it is indicative of the film, not the story told within.
This mostly amounts to an interview with someone we never see, the title Latasha's best friend, with some animation and "lyrical" shot footage of a young woman in fields and in water. It's trying to use artsiness to hide a thin concept. The woman tells us how she first met Latasha, who came to her rescue when…

2022

★★½ 4

Believe it or not, even I get tired of myself and my constant complaining about superhero movies. I would love, for once, to watch one of these films and feel completely transported, enraptured by the story, characters, and visuals and feel as enthusiastic as so many others do about the viewing experience. I don't want to hate them, but something about them feels so forbidding and baffling to me, I just cannot access them in any way, and while I…

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