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Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Unforgiven
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Heat

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  • John Wick: Chapter 2

    ★★★★

  • John Wick

    ★★★★

  • Friendship

    ★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★

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John Wick: Chapter 2

2017

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Veers a little bit more into camp than the original, but also builds out the world and ups the stakes effectively.

John Wick

2014

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Such a pure, simple, good thing. It has a certain amount of the campiness of a lot of late '90s/early '00s action films but built around the sturdy core of superb stunt work.

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Avengers: Endgame

2019

2

This is America's ass—flabby and unkempt—and it's even worse than you think it's going to be. If only we could snap it out of existence. By definition, junk food cinema isn't nourishing, but it's at least supposed to be fun. Yet there's none to be had here, this has been vacuum-sealed against fun in favor of delivering a (too) familiar product. This is a fittingly cynical and hollow conclusion to an epically cynical and hollow franchise. Doesn't even feel like…

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