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2020

★½ Watched 19 May 2025

I keep pressing play on these kinds of movies like I’m chasing a ghost... some echo of what I once believed these stories could be. Some faint trace of the excitement I used to feel when a Marvel logo flickered across the screen, back when the idea of superheroes meant something. Before it all curdled into product. Before the wonder dried up.

Still, I hit play again.

I think I knew what The New Mutants was going to be before…

2016

★½ Watched 18 May 2025

The bad streak of Anya movies continues. I keep pressing play like I’m chasing a vision of her that only exists in my head. And every time, I end up watching another sci-fi PowerPoint presentation with mood lighting.

What it is, though, is the cinematic equivalent of someone reading a sci-fi Wikipedia summary out loud with dramatic lighting. But that’s not hard when everything else is moving at the emotional pace of a Windows XP loading screen.

Anya’s there, of…

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2019

★★★★ Liked Watched 26 Jan 2025

If Ana de Armas was the only one questioning me, I’d confess to being the killer, the butler, and the victim all at once

1995

★★★★½ Watched 27 Apr 2023

It's like if The Godfather had a wild night in Vegas and lost all its money on a bad bet

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