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  • Showgirls
  • Resurrection
  • Don't Look Now
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  • Avatar: Fire and Ash

    ★★★★½

  • Wake Up Dead Man

    ★★★★½

  • Eternity

    ★★★½

  • The Running Man

    ★★½

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Avatar: Fire and Ash

Avatar: Fire and Ash

2025
★★★★½ Watched 4

Perhaps a rehash of The Way of Water like many are saying, but I only found it to be so in the most superficial of ways. Avatar: Fire and Ash is emotional and angry — a runaway train of a movie that careens through every gorgeous beat of its predecessor with even deeper feeling and consequence. The most common grievances against all Avatar movies — their clunkiness, their derivative storytelling — often miss how potent it is at marrying disparate…

Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man

2025
★★★★½ Watched 2

There’s a stretch of five seconds early on in Wake Up Dead Man where it threatens to become the most annoying movie of the year, but then it turns into one of the best things Rian Johnson has ever done. I was genuinely moved by it. All in on Josh O’Connor stock.

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Sinners

Sinners

2025
★★★★½ Watched 13

Purposefully messy vampire metaphor just overflowing with passion and ideas, painted across a tapestry of folklore, diegetic blues, and epic horror. It’s why we go to the movies. The 70mm print stuns.

MaXXXine

MaXXXine

2024
★½ Watched 23

As an ardent X and Pearl apologist, I think MaXXXine is everything X and Pearl haters accuse those movies of being.

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