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May 5, 20231 min read
The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Identity in a Box
Two Black dudes squat in an old house in a gentrified neighborhood. Character posing is extraordinary, colors vibrant, frames often...
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Mar 3, 20231 min read
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Multiverse-hopping mayhem, riotous comedy, inventive action; Everything Everywhere All At Once may not be a film for everyone, but for...
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Aug 30, 20211 min read
101 Dalmatians (1961): Long Past Expiration
So, the film starts out with a dog wistfully watching passersby in an awful sequence where women’s bodies are compared to those of their...
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Jul 11, 20211 min read
Bottle Rocket Hits Its Target
But the explosion is very muted. Owen and Luke Wilson play longtime friends and petty crooks who decide to perform a robbery. Their...
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May 21, 20211 min read
Ratatouille: What The Chef Threw Out
Ratatouille is incessantly stupid, and I hated just about every minute of it. The only thing I can find to recommend about the whole...
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May 14, 20211 min read
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
This film tells a charming and hilarious tale about found family, reputation, and societal judgment. It’s quite an adventure, has a few...
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May 7, 20211 min read
Like Father: A 98-Minute Commercial
I’ve heard this film described as a romantic comedy, which is strange, because the central relationship is between a young business exec...
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Apr 30, 20211 min read
Mayhem (2017)
This Steven Yeun-led action film is just under 90 minutes of flashy action and gore, and as long as you’re looking for nothing more, will...
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Mar 19, 20211 min read
Madeline (1998)
Precocious girl performs antics to prevent her boarding school from closing down. Suitably cute, moderately funny, with both types of...
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Mar 5, 20212 min read
A Series of Unfortunate Events: the Bad Beginning
The series’s reputation precedes it, and I’m sure the reader likely has some opinion about the property before hearing mine. After all,...
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Jan 29, 20211 min read
Addams Family (2019): It’s Okay
It’s cute. It’s reasonably funny. It’s got all the characters you remember. It’s fine. Plot: 4 Characters: 5 Themes: 5 Spectacle: 7...
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Jan 22, 20212 min read
The Art of Self Defense: A Thesis On Toxic Masculinity
I'll be honest. I wasn't sure if this movie was brilliant or just brilliantly stupid at first. But, every couple scenes or so The Art of...
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Jan 15, 20211 min read
Four Lions: A Terrorism Comedy
A small group of would-be terrorists who are rejected by a larger terrorist group decide to hatch a plan of their own. Now there are a...
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Jan 1, 20211 min read
Cabin in the Woods: A Metacommentary
I don’t think there’s much for me to say about Cabin in the Woods that someone smarter hasn’t already said. It manages to be a...
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Dec 25, 20201 min read
Lovebirds: A Romantic Murder Comedy
A couple who are drifting apart accidentally become accessories to a murder. Two people of color, they spend the rest of the film running...
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Dec 18, 20202 min read
The Little Hours: The Longest Rape Joke
The Little Hours has an amazing cast, an interesting thematic bent, and occasionally strong writing. Certainly there are funny scenes...
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Dec 4, 20203 min read
Fe@rless: Hello, Fellow Kids
The premise: A supervillain wants to kidnap a superhero’s babies in order to siphon their powers. A couple of high school kids end up...
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Oct 18, 20201 min read
Babe (1995), Relentlessly Cute
From the perspective of its titular character, Babe is a story about a pig who is “adopted” by a family of sheepdogs. From the...
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Oct 13, 20202 min read
Peanut Butter Falcon: Powerbomb Your Feelings
Another Shia LaBeouf film? Yeah, you caught me. I like watching this guy. His career has had an odd, but entertaining trajectory. And as...
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Aug 23, 20201 min read
Honey Boy: Love It Or Love It
Do you like Shia LaBeouf? No? Then, would you like to see him play a washed-up rodeo clown failure of an abusive father? In a movie that...
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