SpeedLancer has written 117 reviews for films during 2023.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

★★★★★ Liked 20

Me and my friends getting followed home by a granny in a vanny was NOT A CANON EVENT!!!

The night may have gotten a little crazy after the movie...but it wasn't even close to how CRAZY UNPARALLELED Across the Spider-Verse is.

I AM IN AWE OF - AND IN LOVE WITH - THIS MOVIE TEN TIMES MORE THAN I ALREADY WAS WITH ITSV.

THE WAIT TILL BEYOND WILL GO DOWN AS JUST AS AGONIZING AS THE WAIT FOR ENDGAME.

Every…

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

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

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

2023

★★★★ 1

Happy Superhero Day to me! That's right, I saw this last Friday...and then spent the next week trying to formulate my thoughts and how much even to say at all to the point that I didn't even get to flaunt my early screening. I still don't know where to start; let's just start at the end.

With Vol. 3 being a genuine grand finale on the story we've watched blossom across two prior volumes, two crossover bonanzas, and a holiday…

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018

★★★★½ 5

In concert. Transcendent.

Think I'm cursed around these SV movies though: ATSV opening night saw my friends and I followed home afterwards and this review is being written from a lyft back home 2 hours from the venue because my car got fucking stolen. My dinner and the book my sister gave me for my birthday were in there. San Jose gets a 1/2 star. Sorry Julia.

On an unrelated note, I'm taking applications to form a group of spider-themed…

Titanic

1997

★★★★★ 2

First-ever watch, in a theater and on 35mm as Jim intended...

I'll be goddamned.

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

2022

★★★★ 6

PUSS IN BOOTS SAYS FUCK (NOT CLICKBAIT)

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It's come to my attention that Puss in Boots' official line is "Holy frijole!", not "Holy fuck!", but all three of us heard "fuck" so I believe there is a cut with "fuck" and thus this is indeed not clickbait; you can't convince me otherwise.

Speed Racer

2008

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

There's really no better way to celebrate the end of finals than ecstatically screaming over this movie in a room full of people also losing their minds. (Plus the one person who's never seen it before and definitely isn't getting the full experience, but is also getting the FULL experience.) Now I've already topped the 2022 SR count and it's time to tackle the 2021 tally. Thank you to Leslie and Co. for an ending to the year JUST as exciting as the last 56 times I saw this!!!

Logan

2017

Full disclosure: this was the first X-Men movie I ever saw. I don't know if I watched Deadpool before or not - I want to say I watched this on the flight out to Europe, and I know DP was on the flight back - but either way, we won't count that.

It's a testament to this movie that I still enjoyed it. I didn't love it the way everyone who'd seen twelve thousand movies with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine…

Before Sunrise

1995

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Before midnight, I was of the belief that, to keep my perfect ratings from becoming excessive, those rare 5/5s must elicit the feeling of watching a 5/5 at almost every moment. I've been scrutinizing my ratings of late, and wanting to ensure those at the top were indeed in a class of their own, I'd come up with that criteria - in retrospect, though it made sense at the time - somewhat arbitrarily. Before Sunrise reminded me that a story…

Barbie

2023

★★★★½ Watched

Seeing this again in minutes so I'll save the longer thoughts for that entry.

All that I've been thinking about since Tuesday is getting to see Ryan Gosling's comedic chops get absolutely UNLEASHED for almost two straight hours, and that's enough for me to hail this as one of the best movies of the year.

I could conceive of this going down to a 4 just because of some confused political messaging (kinda weird to pretend no woman has been…

What Is a Woman?

2022

Watched

EVERYONE can be super! And when everyone's super...
mmhmhmhahahaHAHAHA

...no one will be.

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