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  The Creator 2023

  ★★½ Watched 23 Oct 2023 1

  The last time I was in a movie theater, it was to see a Star Wars movie, Jesus Christ, damn near four years ago. I haven’t felt a need to return since, thanks to upgrading to a 77-inch 4K TV with Dolby Atmos surround sound, and a global plague, but today I found myself traveling on business, in town three hours before check-in time at my hotel, with a movie theater right next door, so I strapped on an N-95…

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  Bushwick 2017

  ★½ Watched 20 Oct 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  For a while when I was in my 20s, I dated a girl who came from money, and since we were in our 20s, that meant I inherited all her bougie friends from college. One evening, I was informed that we were going to meet a couple of her old buddies to “hang out,” which, to me, a 28-year-old chainsmoking drunkard who spent more nights than not ensconced at the bars at the back of comedy clubs, fraternizing with colleagues…

Popular reviews

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  Perfect 2018

  ★½ Watched 12 Jan 2020 2

  We open with seizure-inducing flickering lights and a voice over direct from an incel's manifesto, and I fear that I might have made a terrible movie selection.

  Then we cut to a teenager, who has apparently murdered a girl in his bedroom, calling his mom for help, and it seems the voice over might well have been straight out of an incel's 4Chan post history, and I am questioning the life choices that have brought me here, in front of…

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  Clerks III 2022

  ★½ Watched 22 Oct 2022 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  You can't go home again.

  -- My mom, 1993

  I'm gonna start here: I liked Clerks 3. But in a very specific, very complicated way. I liked it in the way I imagine some people like going to high school or college reunions. It's fun to see people you cared very much about at one time in your life, throw back a few drinks, and reminisce about the good times you shared. The problem is, eventually you run out of…