HeyJaredMatt Levy's Comedy Stray Notes
All things comedy. Profiles of comics, videos I made, movies I think you should see and other recommendations. Maybe even a joke or two.
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This might be the most average, middle-of-the-road newsletter about movies you ever read (opens the original)
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We’re finally, officially at the hump.Three-star movies.If you think this email is above a three-star experience, type your email in the lil box below. I promise you won’t regret it
You won’t believe what movies I gave 2.5 stars (opens the original)
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This newsletter is late because of my annual Yom Kippur fast (I’m Jewish, btw).Around hour 22, I got a throbbing (yeah, I said throbbing) headache but stayed strong and stuck it out all the way to the bitter end, knowing that there was orange chicken waiting for me on the other side.I’m so hungry. By simply typing your email, you could feed me and my family<input class="email-input" name="email" tabinde
I caught almost 170 movies released in 2025. These were all the ones I thought deserved two stars (opens the original)
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I go into every movie I see wanting to like it.Every single time, I’m hoping — nay, praying! — that I’m about to see my all-time favorite motion picture.Here’s a really great place to type your email if you’re not a subscriber:<div class="fake-input
I saw 167 movies released in 2025. Here’s my take on the three I gave 1.5 stars (opens the original)
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You probably thought I’d forgotten.You probably thought “oh, Matt wrote two of those things recapping his little Letterboxd reviews and gave up” but no, no, no, you’d be sorely, sorely mistaken, mi friend.<p class="cta-captio
I saw 165 movies released in 2025. These are the five I gave one star (opens the original)
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Every time I see my 95-year-old grandma, she tells me “you should be a film critic!”I always wave her off and say “aww shucks, that ain’t me, but that’s awful kind of you to say” without telling her that I secretly maintain a very robust Letterboxd profile with the username TubiAppreciator that I treat as my very own local newspaper.And, like any good (pretend) publication, I try to stay on top of things.So, I saw 165 new releases in 2025.So
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