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perhaps one of the most audacious conversations a person could choose to have with their wife over the phone
andrew scott YOU were the best caller

chris farley is the only reason I turned this on
john goodman just randomly appearing with less than 20 minutes left

“Lieutenant Kendrick, do you think Santiago was murdered?” (demi) “Commander, I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ.” (kiefer)
juicy courtroom moments aplenty, that jessep monologue at the end is some all-time angry war officer yelling
and great job for including a tom cruise impression of jack nicholson

love that Skipper uses “Parker Posey” as an exclamation
my favorite penguins, and kind of everybody’s favorite penguins? star power

And in Bay City, if you cross the line, your nuts are mine.
loveddd patton oswalt’s disco battle narration

I want to live in faraway winding caves and tunnels with the Mytics dude, my favorite part was every single cutaway to their journey.
awe inspiring set design.

was entirely (and happily ofc) caught off guard by The Safety Dance and Ma’s robot
poor genie dude

if your movie is bad, having charlie day act like he’s on coke generally helps

this feels like experiencing a god awful day on twitter while trying a new drug, also you’re like nineteen again, not to mention before all this you’re forced to watch a guy named troy swing around his used condom like car keys, but then you’re randomly granted serenity by ayo edebiri’s presence and jacob elordi’s side profile.

love this brand of movie for the random fred armisen and will forte spots
always unfortunate when dax shepherd has to play a dick
“you know I was talking to jimmy buffet this morning about trans fats” in a ponytail that steve martin never needs to explore again

this score gave me simon and garfunkel graduate flashbacks but luckily more amusing 
deeply unserious, but mostly the good kind

“Art, as in work of,” is a flawless character entrance.
both emma’s were amazing, this movie obviously lives and dies with them, unbridled talent at two different stages of their careers, can’t understate how great they are in this.
sequel/spin-off family movie that still has tons of charisma, it cannnn be done

we appreciated the specification of vampire makeup and effects in the opening credits.
“she’s dead as a doornail, my friend” would not be my go to one liner after a vampire kill.
antonio banderas… if he gazed deeply at me and called me beautiful, very different events would have transpired afterwards.
horny, bi movie where vampire brad pitt gets saved by film after raising a family with tom cruise

buddy guy

burns down mother’s house and then immediately heads over to a weeknd concert.
guys she actually poured out the gasoline.
a few extra points for the laughs, namely the loosely choreographed mini discography run through hostage scene. the soft tears followed by “I feel like that was about me” scene is also worth a mention.

an unrelenting, continuous display of intertwined visual and musical beauty
give it a few more years and everyone’s going back to single, madeleine wake upppp

name one scene that doesn’t work

I normally burn out by the end of the movie for this lane of comedy even when it’s smart, but he does play such a great idiot, the robinson/rudd dynamic is fun, and it’s made in a creatively unique enough way, so ended up having a really good time this
it’s hard not to go 4 when the big lick scene exists

impossibly tragic that the lasagna was left uneaten.
bob odenkirk doing cool shit with a bus handle bar, bob odenkirk dropping the needle on the record with his gun to set his house on fire, bob odenkirk doing cool shit scored to Pat Benatar, bob odenkirk getting saved by RZA and Christopher Lloyd. hard one not to have fun with.
kind of what I was hoping Love Hurts could be (or at least close to it).

could've had a Sinners round two… sitting down instead for round two of Julia n friends defeating depression was an extraordinarily tough pill to swallow, but still not a bad time.
wyatt russell plays a great douchebag US Agent, Ghost deserved some more screen time, and marvel can’t escape terrible dialogue

Des Moines, Iowa.
the more thought I give Secretary, the more I love how much the ending anchors the whole movie.
large portions of this almost felt like something originally written for the stage.
24/7, 7 days a week. ingrained. you (no not James Spader, iykyk)

og james bond Qatermain has a fucked accent for two hours and kills a guy with a tusk
“You broke my heart once. This time you missed.”
somehow made the majority of these characters so much more forgettable (I would completely forget at different points of this that tom sawyer was in fact tom sawyer) but dom bought the dvd and I had a fun time

“Please don’t gasp at work.” julia we love you
didn’t butcher Sentry???
kevin feige should be sending florence pugh weekly flowers

a KID??? they had a CHILD?? she had to have her pregnancy explained to her every day?!?! waking up on a BOAT with a CHILD with nothing but GLACIERS all around???
I liked sean astin’s lisp

DAMMIT the fuckin Heroes cut to credits worked. 
I feel like the minor problems I have with this are easily reconciled once I that the entire script is from the vantage point of a ten-year-old.
i felt deeply and personally scorned when I wasn’t allowed to see this as a seventeen year old

paramore riot merch as far as the eye can see
peeing in the lotion?? pretty vile
an unfortunately accurate display of how eighth grade boys talk to each other, but also provides a reminding sigh of relief that those years are nowhere near the full culmination of who those kids end up amounting to be.
yes I cried duh, some really beautiful mother/son scenes at the tail end, Joan Chen’s line delivery of “how could I be ashamed of you?” crumbled me

Really loved Italia’s character representing the vibrant, still yet untold parts of life that can be left forever unappreciated when in pursuit of things dead and gone. It’s also important to her character that Arthur’s lack of ability to excavate enough of himself for her never took away from her vibrance and the possession she had over her own life.

will need to rewatch, did love that it jumps right into things. I did not remotely clock that the protagonists are therapists, and my understanding of the characters was lagging behind the entire time. overflowing with cool shit though, will definitely be revisiting

happy anniversary to these three incredible losers

desperately need to know more devito oswald lore about how the penguins raised him.
character defining performance from michelle pfeiffer, the one-liners are too perfect, the physical acting is too spot on, the disheveled hair and smudged lipstick combo is so appropriately manic.
walken’s shreck character is so random in his plot significance.
so much charisma, identity, and creativity in this one, that danny elfman score deserves a shout too.
pointed out by rob- no one uses a good bridge (often cobblestoned and/or curved) like tim burton

a musically centered one-day vampire movie had no business having this level of innovation/creativity (i have never seen another musically centered one-day vampire movie).
“shammmmmyyyyyy” unserious

movie poster so purposefully ugly that it ively steered me away from watching this for so long, so much funnier than i had assumed and very perfectly 2016
would love to party with joan cusack
basically katy perry’s current career trajectory
bill hader saying “tip-top” is all I really need

poppy was just continuously sick as hell, my lair would also likely be in a customized treehouse and that dance routine with her cat blew whatever cockroach boy george was doing out of the park
dr nefario??? i was taken aback

FANTASTIC neurotic man movie 
no shortage of rewindable moments, especially among the smoky shots

they got emma stone back for this?? feels like a sequel that would’ve had a big main cast member missing.
luke wilson and woody should’ve run away together

“we banish you to the deepest recesses, where you may reflect upon your wickedness”GRATIFYING line
cool exploration of grief and that need to be “held”
anthropology sucks and florence pugh can’t find peace, but she’s just too damn good at playing nearly/fully manic characters
*almost* made will poulter unlikeable

lawrence ultimately wins the “solemnly take off and set down my shiny, stylish glasses” competition that takes place throughout this entire film, but bellini and sister agnes certainly have some contending efforts

honestly not one I can critically evaluate too much for now. thought Justice Smith put in a great performance and the pink opaque was cool both in concept and delivery. intentionally melodramatic style of writing at times. there were significant parts of this that I felt I couldn’t fully grasp (in the sense of understanding the full emotional scope and implications of some portions), which is okay considering the perceptual limitations of my own identity, and yet was still left with a very haunted feeling regardless.
deeply saddening

ministry battle, dumbledore phoenix hand clap, anddd luna lovegood intro??? this one should get more flowers. umbridge is the worst and making out with your crush in front of a picture of her recently deceased bf who you guys were just talking about, who’s death you were physically present for, is ridiculously shameless

so much was unnecessary, but every second of Magneto strutting and waving his hand commands was vital

really grim world-building achieved largely with usage of colors and score.
can see how dave bautista’s short performance here is very rightfully regarded as career defining/launching for him.
while there’s plenty of humanity laced in throughout, this is still an incredibly bleak and depressing film.
it’s taken so long to get a full and fair watch of this in, a WEIGHT has been lifted. some more context from the original movies would be great for the next watch

a concept so ridiculous and writing so bad that caring about anything that happens is a tough task, but that kid is unbelievably adorable and I got to see bateman do weird shit, which is why this got turned on in the first place
jeff goldblum is definitely in that category of actors that get hired to play loosely defined iterations of themselves

A solid shitty/dumb people doing shitty/dumb things movie, landed on its feet better than I thought was gonna be the case, but throwing JK simmons into your movie will often have that effect.
Teeedddd nooooo, I love a great pathetic character.
gotta give brad pitt some credit for the comedy, mr. jiggly good samaritan kinda did his thing.
graced with yet another legendary s mcdormand character, the people love you Linda Litzke

very appreciative of the people in and out of my life who pour their time and energy into teaching children about life
a surprisingly perfect lens to capture some really beautiful but often misunderstood aspects of humanity

monologue heavyyy and award-hunty, but has meryl streep and entertaining southern white dysfunction
“gimme a break” in response to your sister calling you out for sleeping with your cousin who’s really your brother is in direct competition with the julia roberts eat your fish scene

adam sandler and brendan fraser literally could’ve switched characters, the vision is clear 
grateful to have witnessed a buscemi-led riot

underrated classic, quintessential rom com, this has comfort movie status
“your ass is grass” into the drew barrymore line delivery hall of fame
jon lovitz owns the two scenes he’s in and alexis arquette doesn’t even need a line to be funny sandler’s mullet is also very worth mentioning

Art is a necessity and Colman Domingo is overwhelmingly, abundantly talented

maybe much smarter than I’m giving it credit for, this just never really grabbed me though.
watching without subtitles made it hard to decipher a lot of the spy jargon which ittedly contributed to me becoming less invested throughout, never got the chance to become too endeared to the marriage in question either.
ends strong even though the writing was somewhat on the wall, successfully steamy vibe, and the performances are decent, but yeah just found it kind of hard to care about what was happening.
Severus? just say severance?

ensemble movie without interesting characters, sprawling story with a less than captivating plot, BUT some really memorable hair-dos and bradley cooper/amy adams dancing to donna summer

2025 movies I’ve seen in theaters.

• Hurry Up Tomorrow
• Friendship
• Thunderbolts*
• Sinners
• Black Bag
• Mickey 17
• Last Breath
• Opus
• Love Hurts
• Captain America: Brave New World

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2024 movies I’ve seen in theaters

• Babygirl
• Nosferatu
• A Complete Unknown
• Queer
• Y2K
• Gladiator II
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot
• Heretic
• Anora

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2023 movies I saw in theaters
(unranked)

• Anatomy of a Fall
• American Fiction
• Wonka
• The Iron Claw
• Poor Things
• The Color Purple
• Godzilla Minus One
• The Holdovers
• Eileen
• Saltburn

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i swear i’m gonna finish these soon
running and ranked baby

1. The Conjuring
2. The Conjuring 2
3. Annabelle
4. Annabelle: Creation
5. The Curse of La Llorona
6. The Nun

raannkkeeddd

1. The Hunger Games
2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
3. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

rankin em up

1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets