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Favorite films

  • First Reformed
  • The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
  • Chinese Firedrill
  • Head

All
  • Resident Evil: Retribution

    ★★★★

  • Another Simple Favor

  • Friendship

    ★★

  • Resident Evil: Afterlife

    ★★½

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Resident Evil: Retribution

2012

★★★★ Watched

Both the most VIDEO GAME ass movie and the most MOVIE ass video game. As Filipe Furtado notes in his review: "(progression here is a matter of space more than drama)" As in most video games, progression is not tied to drama or time but moving through space. This is the best building of the franchise, feeling like a true sequel to the original film rather than a offshoot while still using all the previous entries in fun ways.

Another Simple Favor

2025

Watched

I was kinda into it for a while but it loses steam as the plot becomes more and more convoluted and arbitrary. The back half is completely juiceless and extremely annoying. The finale is almost worth the toll: stupid beyond belief and very poorly orchestrated.

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Sinners

2025

★★ 3

Delroy Lindo is really fantastic with the cliche character bits they give him. The live music was great but the score overall did not work at all, veering between cinematic generics and overwrought mush. The projection at the Logan made this dark, muddy, and unappealing to look at. I am a little surprised at the reception to this: the third act lacks any meaningful action and the post-credits finale is as corny as the preceding two hours. There are the…

Hit Man

2023

Watched

Looks terrible, paced terrible, sounds terrible. Shocked at how many people seem to like this glacial and unfunny bit of summer schlock. The sixth time we do the rotating mug shots (that go from horribly photoshopped to just badly framed BACK to poorly edited) with the jaunty piano underneath I was ready to turn it off, but held out for the mind numbing ending that expects us to buy that this nasty no-chemistry relationship HAS LEGS! I am not as…