Letterboxd 4v3r4n Adam B. Vary

Star Trek 2l6l7 First , 1996 - ★★★

Sun, 8 Jan 2023 11:00:23 +1300

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I wish I loved it more!

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Avatar 254p62 The Way of Water, 2022 - ★★★★½

Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:04:57 +1300

Second time through, this was even better for me. I fully sobbed by the end, which really took me by surprise. I am very much looking forward to three more of these movies.

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Death on the Nile 5a1433 2022 - ★★★½

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:41:16 +1300

Jennifer Saunders does a New England accent and Annette Bening does a British accent and Sophie Okonedo does a Southern accent in the same scenes.

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Uncharted 4a665b 2022 - ★★

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:35:55 +1300

All it made me want to do is play the games again, though it was genuinely impressive catag all the ways Tom Holland showed off his physique.

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Eternals 4h5v16 2021 - ★★½

Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:56:11 +1300

A big swing and only kind of connected.

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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:57:03 +1300

This is what our frigid, frightened, freighted country needs right now. My only regret is that I could not see it with an audience. Lionsgate should already be planning sing-along midnight screenings for the After Times. I’ll be first in line.

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Superman 666j4u 1978 - ★★★★

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:36:33 +1300

This movie should not work — it’s really three quite different movies sandwiched together! — and yet, it’s nearly perfect.

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The Great Mouse Detective 4h6z2z 1986 - ★★½

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:48:23 +1300

Watched on Tuesday February 9, 2021.

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Promising Young Woman 4t2r3p 2020 - ★★★★

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:48:05 +1300

Watched on Thursday January 28, 2021.

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Terminator 166235 Dark Fate, 2019 - ★★★

Tue, 9 Feb 2021 15:04:52 +1300

The last act is a mess, but this is much better than I ever expected it to be, largely because this series should have ALWAYS been about Sarah Connor.

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Tue, 9 Feb 2021 15:03:04 +1300

Was not prepared for it, and that's as it should be.

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Inglourious Basterds 362943 2009 - ★★★★★

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:11:20 +1300

Watched on Monday January 18, 2021.

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Dazed and Confused 5u735 1993 - ★★★★½

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:08:02 +1300

Watched on Thursday January 14, 2021.

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Hot Fuzz 302k3q 2007 - ★★★

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:07:19 +1300

Watched on Friday January 15, 2021.

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The Silence of the Lambs 4s637 1991 - ★★★★★

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:07:04 +1300

Watched on Saturday January 16, 2021.

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Ratatouille 3a639 2007

Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:31:04 +1300

Watched on Tuesday October 27, 2020.

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WALL·E 371i4j 2008

Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:29:48 +1300

Watched on Thursday October 29, 2020.

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Up 2i6247 2009

Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:25:35 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 31, 2020.

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Cars 3b651c 2006

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:22:15 +1300

Watched on Friday October 23, 2020.

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The Incredibles 4q3im 2004

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 05:19:40 +1300

Watched on Wednesday October 21, 2020.

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Finding Nemo 243r4f 2003

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:33:20 +1300

Watched on Sunday October 18, 2020.

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Monsters 6x3962 Inc., 2001

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:30:19 +1300

Watched on Wednesday October 14, 2020.

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Toy Story 2 3b3y1a 1999

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:40:15 +1300

Watched on Saturday October 10, 2020.

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A Bug's Life l2i65 1998

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:39:32 +1300

Watched on Friday October 9, 2020.

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Toy Story 3s5a3g 1995

Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:45:32 +1300

Watched on Sunday October 4, 2020.

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Nothing Like a Dame 221g2c 2018 - ★★★

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 01:55:32 +1200

Watched on Thursday September 17, 2020.

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X 5a4w5j Men: Days of Future Past, 2014 - ★★★½

Sun, 30 Aug 2020 10:31:54 +1200

Watched on Saturday August 29, 2020.

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Dark Phoenix 2f271m 2019 - ★★

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 02:45:42 +1200

The train fight wasn’t half bad. Everyone sure seemed sad. Jessica Chastain was boring, egad.

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The First Wives Club 4v693z 1996 - ★★★½

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:16:34 +1200

Finally rectified this pop-culture blind spot, and I lost count of the number of times I gay gasped. Marcia Gay Harden! J. Smith-Cameron! Kate Burton! And then I just gasped gasped when Stephen Collins showed up, but that’s not really the movie’s fault.

Right after, my husband and I fancasted a remake: Halle Berry as Elise, Jennifer Garner as Annie, Maya Rudolph as Brenda, Sophie Turner in the SJP role, Zendaya in the Elizabeth Berkley role, Lucy Liu in the Stockard Channing role, Margot Robbie in the Marcia Gay Harden role, Marcia Gay Harden in the Maggie Smith role, and Maggie Smith in the Eileen Heckart role.

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My Neighbor Totoro 5a532d 1988 - ★★★★

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:43:12 +1200

Watched on Saturday August 15, 2020.

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For Sama 4k6g29 2019 - ★★★★½

Fri, 7 Aug 2020 13:58:50 +1200

I saw this film as part of the SXSW documentary film jury, and left it totally speechless. As a document of the civil war in Syria, it is essential, but what really flattened me was realizing I was watching an epic about war and love (romantic, maternal) as sweeping and cinematic as any scripted film.

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The Queen 4hh1q 2006 - ★★½

Wed, 5 Aug 2020 17:47:01 +1200

I recently rewatched this movie hoping to get some of that sweet sweet The Crown buzz, but it is so studiously dull that I fell asleep. I cannot believe Helen Mirren won over Meryl’s Miranda Priestly.

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Mulan 473t67 2020 - ★★★★

Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:02:23 +1200

Watched on Monday March 9, 2020.

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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 6u4x4o 2020 - ★★★

Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:01:54 +1200

Watched on Wednesday January 22, 2020.

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Onward 332i41 2020 - ★★½

Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:01:16 +1200

Watched on Sunday March 8, 2020.

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Hamilton t2d1 2020 - ★★★★½

Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:00:57 +1200

Watched on Saturday July 4, 2020.

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The Old Guard 27ud 2020 - ★★★½

Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:00:34 +1200

Watched on Thursday July 16, 2020.

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Palm Springs x5x3i 2020 - ★★★½ (contains spoilers)

Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:21:43 +1200

This review may contain spoilers.

Charming and funny and so weirdly apt as a pandemic movie. I love Cristin Milioti's ability to play comedy and drama, sometimes in the same scene, and Andy Samberg is really growing into such a winning leading man.

One thought for those who've seen the movie, though: Why not give Samberg's character at least one more beat where he's romancing that other guy at the wedding (also the *only* significant Black character in the movie)? It's nice to think that man-on-man sex isn't a big deal for him, less nice to think that man-on-man sex is still a punchline rather than a real character beat.

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