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I’m not even solely focused on the stunts here, (stunning as they are) my main takeaway is that this has to be the 2nd best looking MI right behind the first. I absolutely love the frames and the light and colors, it’s all just really sharp looking to me.

The HALO jump sequence? Get the heck out of town.

The setting for the final chunk of scenes!? Come ON man.

CAVILL!? THE BATHROOM FIGHT!? HIS PANTS!? What is going ON?? This movie is really excellent.

The ending of this film is also hilariously, cartoonishly positive. I think it’s wonderful and it’s a really fun ending to a great pure action movie!

Now THIS, is how you do it

- Rebecca Ferguson, simply off the charts

- “The Syndicate - A Rogue Nation” 🔥

- underwater scene, terrifying and sick

- mountainside motorcycle chase, beyond cool, one of my favorite MI sequences

- straw hat Luther god mode

- theater fife sniper shootout also one of my favorite MI sequences (Ethan going terry richmond mode and using nonlethal tactics to save lives, come on now)

These movies are something else, man. Excited to see what TC has for me in Final Reckoning this Sunday!

Certainly entertaining, Cruise is just kind of between ages and the Renner flop overshadows most of the movie

Paula Patton and Lea Seydoux, wow!

Michael nyqvist without facial hair was jarring

Lots of guns in this one, interestingly

There is a lot to say about the things this movie does wrong, and folks have certainly said them, but I have to put proper value on the performances throughout this thing

“We put an explosive charge in your head- does that sound familiar? 

The rabbits foot, where is it?”

ing cast littered with names, faces, and banger line reads. Undeniable juice in more than a few of these scenes

Watched this with friends on a projector screen mounted to a shed, pretty much flawless backyard action popcorn.

Shot very crisply for what the intentionality of the film is, so many groovy 80s cars and gorgeous cityscapes!

Arnold loading up and letting it spit is pretty definitive in this one, I would go so far as to say generational. Wow. Had a ton of fun, will rewatch.

Inside me there are two wolves, Mission Impossible 2 Is Good, and Mission Impossible 2 Is Bad

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“We are receiving reports of a mysterious figure taking grip on the imaginations of the Southern Fundamentalist tribes. A new Reverend Mother from the North, spreading word of the imminent arrival of the Lisan Al Gaib - ‘The Voice From The Outer World’

With religious fervor rising in the South, and Mua’Dib strangling spice production in the North, everything points to the escalation of war.”

It’s certainly deserving of all the criticism it receives re: the eye roll factor, I just also choose to balance that against the subject matter, I think. Its not like this isn’t serious stuff at the end of the day, ya know?

This movie is

1) pretty fun
2) captivating in some very emotional and dramatic sequences
3) quite well acted
4) 96 minutes long
5) about something that is really a critical component of the entire global situation we are stuck in currently. It cannot be said enough, our campaign finance system really is a substantial factor in all of this, the lack of public funding, tax evasion and the rest of it. I’m not going to sit here and act like I know how to fix it, but I’m also not going to sit here and act too cool for school when a movie takes itself a bit seriously in order to attempt a call to action

- Expertly directed and pristinely shot, really finely tuned visual style, sets the tone for the next 100 years of popcorn action

- the dichotomy between Ethan Hunt and Pete Mitchell will consume me until my dying days, the two souls living within this man

- the shot of Jean Reno flying the helicopter in the tunnel has some of the funniest bad old CGI i’ve ever seen and its literally a plus for the film, its so classic and cartoonish

- THE LIST, IS IN, THE OPEN

- mask thing is never not insane and incredible

- the NOC list heist is simply flawless cinema, and deserves 5 stars all to itself

Perfect!

Watched on Mother’s Day morning with my wife while our child got back to bed, and we made a big breakfast and it was delightful

This is the exact level of wink that any winky sarcastic thriller should have! The film Argyle has about 6,000x more snark than this, Its unbearable. Black Bag is an espionage thriller with some action and some sexiness and some snark and literally has a happy ending that will set you up well for a good Sunday, and studios should take note of the line they walk with the tone and dialogue so that these god awful Ryan Reynolds brained snarkathons stop being made.

They had Ray, they had the prison politics, and they had the jungle apocalypse aesthetic for Absolom, and decided that was enough for a 2 hour movie

Looks really sharp for something this junky, I do respect the craft in some of this, but there’s just like nothing going on in 75% of these scenes

Has TV movie written all over it, just wish we had a bit more pace and I would’ve joyously given this 3.5 and a Like. Alas, the end result is pretty hollow.

Feels quite rude to watch a film portraying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis mourning the loss of her husband, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was quite famously assassinated while serving as the 35th president of the United States, and be like “My gosh let’s wrap it up already huh? How many times is this movie going to end?” But alas, this does drag on just a bit in a couple particular spots.

Elite stuff from Natalie Portman for sure, and I really enjoyed Billy Crudup as well. Finely tuned visual style, some of the funeral shots are deeply haunting. 

Final half hour does deserve to be what it is, I think we could’ve just gotten there 15% quicker.

“You couldn’t find big time if you had a road map!”

Brushing up on my wasteland politics before the next round of tariffs hit

You know what, I’m starting to sour on Cumberbatch, I really am. 

Boring film, emotionally resonant but ultimately so dry. Some fun camera stuff took me by surprise in a project like this. Not the absolute worst way to spend 2+ hours but I certainly wish I watched something else.

The power of business to unite the world? Yawn

THIS TOWN-

My 4.5 star review is so dialed in right now, I was lost on my 4.5 star rating for literally like an entire calendar year, but I have found it folks.

This movie is so good, everyone is hot as shit and going nuts, Cate Blanchett gets benched pretty hard for about 40 minutes (just because Other Very Hot People Had To Act Well) and I literally missed her. Wow what an insane pace, I was getting anxious about getting to the end of the plot like worried the movie was going to run out of time without ending lmao what a great sign. 

Marvelous acting, marvelous directing, perfectly goofy, very fun to watch.

Straighter is Mothafuckin greater!

“No, yall not payin’ 20 dollars a night-

-You’re payin’ 20 dollars, Maybe, To-night.”

Best line read of 2025 thus far.

Justice for Jodi Comer!!! How did we lose this film!!?? This is the sickest shit ever and it came out last year, man, come on. Eye on the ball, folks, Please.

“The ghost of John F. Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder at the heart of the American Dream.”

Stunning

Snazzy and groovy here and there, but ultimately way too long and the accents just destroy this thing on arrival.

Neeson and Ford are super fun, score is intense enough to bring you along, it is what it is. 3 star TNT rerun that i’d kill to be watching on a small TV in my childhood bedroom right now.

I mean it just needs to be said, this is one of the great films of all time

Quite informational explanation of the famous Iwo Jima flag photo, and how the US’s incomprehensible lust for a limitless military budget ate them (dead or) alive.

Really liked this one. Eastwood remains undefeated whilst examining the American psyche in film.

Lovely!!

Slight bit too long and just like 5% past my threshold for acceptable pluckiness (me being grumpy about an animated film having pluck) but truly, this movie looks fantastic, all of the voice acting is really really good (Lupita❤️), and the parenting stuff really got me. Beautifully animated sappy story to cry with your wife about on the couch.

Quintessential 4.5 star, so much fun to watch

Holy shit the sights and sounds, names like Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe Playing An Artist Turned Counterfeiter??) and Max Waxman, there’s so many things to love. Friedkin frames on full display, my gosh what camerawork. Beautiful movie. 

You want bread? Fuck a baker!

Just a slight bit weak on the plot, little bit of an odd ending, but Petersen is phenomenal, the music is wonderful, a total blast to watch

Alright, so I gave Aggro Dr1ft 5 stars on this app, so this is going to be difficult to explain, but I absolutely hated this film. There are 2 or 3 very cool kills, there are some truly absurd line reads from Hardy that I did love, but like Nothing Else. Like there’s a really hardcore amount of emptiness here. I have absolutely No reason to care about the plot of this film because it looks like it was shot on a graphics card. This is a PS3 game cutscene, and why!? There are so many talented people connected to this, why did this have to look soooo junky. 

Definitely unfortunate.

The politics of this movie are so insane that it comes all the way around and by the end I’m like yes cop army, go get the bad guys, I love you cop army

Still a truly dreadful film upon rewatch.

Bumping from .5 to 1.5 because I think Pedro Pascal is doing his best, and I think the allure of success and excess is a thing we need a lot of content to be throwing at us all the time especially right now. So i’m removing this from the worst slop junk i’ve ever seen ever dungeon, and upgrading it to the regular this movie stinks, dude group.

This movie stinks, dude

I thought this was exquisite!

Using shitty atheists as your horror movie villain is really funny and I liked it a lot. Very fun time on the couch with the wife on a Sunday evening. Hugh Grant obviously phenomenal, but I found Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East to be equally good. Everyone met the assignment perfectly.

Can’t go higher than 4 stars because we’re just kind of doing circular logic about faith and disbelief here, just like a tad juvenile at times. 

But I love juvenile shit a lot of the time lol so let’s go. Another cool movie that I liked watching.

Um, I just want to say, as an Irish American person who enjoys heavy metal music, I personally think that I’m a very nice guy, and I wouldn’t dream of doing anything depicted in this movie, besides asking Michael B Jordan very politely if I could come into his house.

- number one Why is Anthony Mackie in all of these movies

- number two and more important How Is he in all these movies

- Jamie Dornan was looking a lot like seb stan in this movie so this felt like some weird dark falcon winter soldier reboot

- difference between 3 and 4 stars here was all the exposition around how the drug works. You’re not going to make logical sense out of Time Traveling Percocet so why are we dedicating like 34 minutes to explaining it? Got very silly in the middle

- technically sound, well acted, cool premise, groovy visuals here and there, totally acceptable movie to catch on the couch with my 7 month old daughter who refuses to sleep in ever

“ITS OUR STORY!”

“ITS A STORY!!”

“WE’RE HERE TO TELL A STORY!”

“ITS NOT ABOUT POLITICS ITS ABOUT THE STORY!”

WHAT IS THE STORY, MOVIE?

Deeply upsetting, a stark document of this country’s relationship with law enforcement.

This review may contain spoilers.

- william petersen gorgeous

- this movie is extremely scary and upsetting? In many many scenes?

- sounds, score, soundtrack, any audio ever being used anywhere in this film is perfect

- tom noonan terrifying

- dennis farina classic guy

- brian cox, i’m not sure if anybody knows this, plays Hannibal Lecter, in this film?

- I’ve watched this movie 2 times this week and I still have no idea how the police find dollarhyde at the end, something about labels and a database and they narrow it down to his name somehow? No clue man

- Mann does it again, this movie is sick

“Reflections, mirrors, images...you've seen these films, haven't you my man?”

WOW. I have been split open by the sights and sounds of Michael Mann’s Manhunter. What a project. Such distilled genre stuff (the killer catching his reflection off the knife, the cop/killer cat/mouse trope, the killer and a victim in a darkroom, so many standard classic killer slasher horror tools but they’re used so effectively!) mixed with some really unique elements that only Mann can bring at this volume (incredible score, incredible performances from Petersen, Noonan and Cox, and 500 of the sickest frames I’ve ever seen on my television set).

Very impressive, very nice way to spend 2 hours at the beginning of a Sunday. Jeez.

Viola Davis is quite fun in this movie and the rest of it is so bad, its really not even worth the watch for her

Written atrociously, I couldn’t believe some of this dialogue. Definitely thought this could’ve been something fun, but feels bizarrely exploitative  at times.

Just not nearly enough quality

Didn’t hate this one!

Pretty boring but there’s a couple groovy showdowns, and it’s trying to say a thing or two about the nature of genocide? Or something? 

Berenger and Bokeem Woodbine make a bizarrely compelling duo at points

Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was

Extremely harrowing film, but the subject matter is just too important to the story of this war, and what we did there.

Definitely one to revisit, despite the difficult watch. De Palma makes it as palatable as possible with some of the sharpest frames I’ve seen of this kind of setting.

Very good film

Very very very very frustrating movie

Script and tone kept going for some surrealist heightened reality thing, but nobody told the actors or the editors or the director? Strange dissonance between what the clear intention was (surreal / absurd thematic adventure through people’s reactions to the apocalypse / survivalism, etc) behind the story, and what we got as an end product (a straight procedural The World Ends movie where we just go from one event to the next, and then it ENDS WITHOUT EXPLANATION!?)

Idk, it looks pretty and this cast all did their jobs really well, just like execution for execution’s sake at the end of the day because 1) we do not learn anything about why or how any of this happened 2) the movie does not have a single substantive thing to say thematically speaking

Odd

Needs more submarines!

Always so fun and interesting to watch movies that are this old. Imagining the techniques and placements that must’ve gone into capturing these images, the prep and writing and logistics of it all, from a totally different age of human history. 

Super boring though unfortunately lol

Pretty bland overall but some fun chunks here and there. Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle know what movie they’re in, and everyone else is either trying to make an episode of the wire, or it's Richard Gere doing the grumpy retiree schtick. 

Ultimately pretty exciting, big showdown didn’t disappoint, I’ve seen much worse movies.

No one in this film is good, but it needs to be said, John Cusack was some kind of different thing. I don’t even know how they released this. Cusack is mind-bendingly bad, it’s really special. 

Uhh anyway yeah this is Way too long, has like 4 total action scenes that are mildly entertaining, and not nearly enough Brody doing some okay things.

“Train wreck” doesn’t even begin to describe the politics in this thing. Good lord, what a disaster of a script. 

Putting 2 stars on the board for BDT and Brolin still doing their thing, and for some well executed military fanfic firefights, but that’s all I’m giving out here for class credits. Everyone else fails the exam without answering a single question correctly.

Holy SHIT dude, islamic terrorism coming across the border to bomb shopping centers, corrupt coyotes recruiting children for cartel violence, and an absolutely criminal tone shift from the first film’s attitude about the involvement of the U.S. military intelligence community in Mexico.

I see a lot of reviews on this app of Sicario 1 as some kind of exploitative action movie made by a hack director, and if you think that, I would LOVE to know what you think of THIS piece of junk lmaooo

Bad movie, shouldn’t have been made.

Finally stuck this out, after watching 10 minutes of it when it first hit streaming before promptly giving up.

Just absolutely nothing here. Totally empty frames. 1 star for Aldis Hodge as Hawkman.

I will briefly say some nice things about this not-quite-Horrible film, there are some gorgeous sweeping landscape shots that make things pretty to look at, the score is really classic 70s shit in a good cool way, and the most compelling parts of this movie do kind of work.

It is, not a good movie, unfortunately

Clint opening his directing career with this project is quite telling. I’m not even sure I have to go all the way to being offended by the way women are used in these roles, because it just doesn’t work in the first place. Jessica Walter is doing her absolute best to execute in a position that I just don’t think could ever be successful. The movie also moves so incredibly slowly that you just don’t ever have a chance of being interested by these people.

Definitely a document of 70s moviemaking though, in many many ways.

“There are times when I... I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money so I can get away from everyone”

The Big Paul List

• Looper

  The definitive big paul experience

• Moon
• In Time
• Avatar
• The Road
• Legion
• 2012
• The Hurt Locker
• District 9
• I Am Legend

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

FILMS I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2025

• The Godfather Part II

  
  

• The Six Triple Eight
• Night Train
• Sharper
• Morgan
• 65
• Tightrope
• The Godfather Part III
• Inland Empire
• Minesweeper

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films released in 2025, ranked

• Sinners
• Black Bag
• Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
• Star Trek: Section 31
• G20
• Elevation
• The Gorge
• Havoc

Mixed rating system that takes into how much I like the movie, as well as whether or not the movie is dune part 2

1. Dune: Part Two
2. I Saw the TV Glow
3. Evil Does Not Exist
4. Rebel Ridge
5. Monkey Man
6. The Bikeriders
7. Conclave
8. The Substance
9. AGGRO DR1FT
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by The Big Picture podcast’s 25 for 25 episodes

1. Mulholland Drive
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
6. Parasite
7. Get Out
8. Training Day
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. The Dark Knight

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Exclusive club of films that might not even be my favorites, but blew me away with technical proficiency or artistic talent when I watched them. Ranked, open to additions and alterations at all times.

1. Mirror
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Citizen Kane
4. Mulholland Drive
5. GoodFellas
6. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7. Metropolis
8. Daisies
9. Malcolm X
10. There Will Be Blood

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Criteria:

33.3% “How much do I like this movie?”

33.3% “How well made do I think this movie is?”

33.3% “How significant is this movie to the industry and culture that it was released in?”

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. 20 Days in Mariupol
3. The Zone of Interest
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. BlackBerry
6. Napoleon
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
9. Barbie
10. Ballerina

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

12 disc DVD box set of 50 combat films dated 1934-1985, I am watching them in my basement via an xbox series X in 2023-2024

1. Commandos
2. Go for Broke!
3. Mutiny
4. Hell in Normandy
5. Aerial Gunner
6. The War Devils
7. Identity Unknown
8. The Battle of El Alamein
9. Submarine Base
10. Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I knew one thing for sure, Russell Bufalino was no truck mechanic from Canada Dry…

1. The Irishman
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. GoodFellas
4. The Departed
5. Taxi Driver
6. The Color of Money
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. The King of Comedy
9. Shutter Island
10. Casino

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Unranked, all the movies I deem to be related to shipping and receiving (my chosen profession for the time being)

• Sorcerer

  The logistics film pace car. There is no film i’d describe as a better fit for this list than Sorcerer.

• Inside Man

  Come on now

• Triple Frontier

  I mean, max load capacity is a Key plot point in this movie, this might be the #1 shipping and receiving film

• How to Blow Up a Pipeline

  Shipping a bomb

• THX 1138

  Unit expenditure has exceeded 6%

• Alien

  Wages, labor, shares, companies, freight ships, cargo, hauling, airlocks, fuel, inventory logs

• Dune

  Can you imagine generating a bill of lading for 100 trillion solaris worth of spice

• Trap

  Inner workings of stadium ops, coordinating and backstage stuff with concerts, also The Butcher is constantly breaking out of places and applying a cold logistics brain to evade law enforcement

• Dune: Part Two

  What is rabban but a regional manager with some serious LP issues on his latest couple of linehaul dispatches

• Raiders of the Lost Ark

  I mean you gotta toss some ratchet straps on that Ark crate, no!?!?

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

THESE ARE THE MOVIES, NEW OR OLD, THAT I WATCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2024

• Ferrari
• Fool's Paradise
• Spooks: The Greater Good
• Mutiny
• The Dawn Express
• Hell in Normandy
• The Way Ahead
• Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
• BlackBerry
• Eraserhead

...plus 179 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my ranking of the MCU movies that I just watched in a row over the course of like 3 weeks or so

1. Black Panther
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron
4. Thor: Ragnarok
5. Avengers: Endgame
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
7. The Avengers
8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home
10. Captain America: Civil War

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list I can read off when someone asks me this question

• Looper
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Apocalypse Now
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• The Irishman
• Dune
• Phone Booth
• Flight
• Training Day
• Ocean's Thirteen

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

3 categories at play here

1) how sick is jason statham in this film?
2) how sick is the film?
3) how important to the film’s sickness, is jason statham’s sickness?

1. Death Race
2. Crank
3. Killer Elite
4. The Expendables
5. Parker
6. Crank: High Voltage
7. The Beekeeper
8. Homefront
9. The Mechanic
10. Mechanic: Resurrection

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune
2. The Card Counter
3. Triple Frontier
4. Ex Machina
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
6. A Most Violent Year
7. Annihilation
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
9. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
10. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Dune
3. Arrival
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Sicario
6. Prisoners