UNREASONABLE OPINIONS BY KNR

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May 26, 20231 min read

Partial Reviews: Magic Mike

Boring. Surprisingly skewed so far up the male gaze’s ass that I wonder why it was marketed toward women. So boring. Felt like a male...

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May 12, 20231 min read

Magic for Liars: Contemporary Fantastic Noir

Sarah Gailey constructs a fun, engaging magical mystery in Magic for Liars. It’s a classic whodunit, set in a magical high school, with a...

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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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Apr 14, 20231 min read

Dead Collections: Vampiric Tale of Love

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman is a speculative romance novel where the main character is afflicted with vampirism: here, a...

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Apr 7, 20232 min read

FINNA: Multiversal Traveling With Your Ex

The way many spec fiction authors write, this novella could easily have been a four-hundred page tome that opens dozens of subplots and...

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Mar 24, 20232 min read

The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Tome That Overflows With Meaning

Benny Oh and his mother, Annabelle, deal with the loss of his father in very different ways. Their mourning is the fabric that the rest...

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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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Sep 17, 20211 min read

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Well, it’s not boring. I was sucked into Allen Ginsberg’s (Daniel Radcliffe) obsessive emotional spiral around magnetic but dysfunctional...

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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 23, 20212 min read

The Sisters Brothers: A Sibling Extravaganza

When I saw that there was a western movie starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as leads, I had to convince myself that I was still...

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Jul 16, 20211 min read

Hard Eight

Slow and contemplative, Hard Eight follows a couple of career gamblers through a series of revealing decisions. The cast is great,...

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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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Jun 25, 20212 min read

Fringe: A Show Worth Observing

Fringe is a police procedural where the crisis-of-the-episode is always a sci-fi mystery. A murderer turns out to be a man-porcupine...

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Jun 11, 20211 min read

Tales From the Loop

Episodes of Loop are slow, contemplative works of irony that share a continuity but no real overarching story. As such, you could...

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Jun 4, 20211 min read

Dumbo (2019), Still Just As Dumb

Only half as scattered and aimless as the original, but it makes up for it by being as long and boring as it can manage. The film is just...

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May 28, 20211 min read

Lovecraft Country (Season 1--of hopefully many)

Immaculate in both its conception and execution, Lovecraft Country pairs captivating spectacle with thematic depth. At its heart, the...

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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 16, 20213 min read

Dhalgren: the Poem For Which You Had To Be There

abrasions through which blood slowly wept. Days or years, seconds or months: the gouges did not go away. Oozing and clotting and cracking...

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Apr 2, 20214 min read

Titus Groan

Peake starts his masterpiece with what will become his hallmark: a seemingly unending stream of descriptive text. Whether or not you...

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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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