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Friday, December 31, 2021

Don't hesitate to grab a slice of Licorice Pizza

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  The works of Paul Thomas Anderson have dealt with some heavy topics. But there's always been bursts of comedy in these productions tha...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Steven Spielberg delivers top-rate musical entertainment with West Side Story

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In case you aren't aware, West Side Story (originally a Broadway musical in the 1950s and first adapted into film through a 1961 Best Pi...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Douglas Laman's 25 Best Movies of 2021

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If the second season of I Think You Should Leave counted as a movie, it would've topped this list without question. 2021 turned out to ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

American Underdog: The Kurt Warner fails to score any points as a sports drama

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The most exciting part about American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story comes in one of its first scenes when the film’s titular protagonist ...

The Master is, among other accomplishments, an acting tour de force

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We're all chasing freedom. In one way or another, we're all running towards the prospect of having full control over our lives. Mayb...

Thankfully, The Matrix Resurrections is no ordinary legacy sequel

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NOTE: This review does not feature spoilers, HOWEVER, it does discuss plot points from The Matrix Resurrections introduced in the 15 minute...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Spider-Man: No Way Home is an exercise in fan service done right

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Watching the marketing for Spider-Man: No Way Home promise a smorgasbord of Spider-Man villains from across the multiverse, my primary con...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Don't Look Up is a messy, though occasionally interesting, plea for the truth

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It's the end of the world as we know it. And writer/director Adam McKay feels...not great if his work as a writer and director on Don...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Drive My Car is a top of the line model, er, movie

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Playwright Anton Chekhov once said, "Any idiot can face a crisis, it's this day-to-day living that wears you out." That sort o...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Being the Ricardos isn't quite worth tuning in to

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It’s time to put on a show. Or at least prepare one. It’s Monday morning and the cast and crew of I Love Lucy have five days to execute a ...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Encanto works so well it's practically magic

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Right after he passed away, the animators at Disney scrambled to figure out what feature-length animation from this studio should look like....
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The Humans isn't an easy watch, but it's a well-crafted one

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  Between Shiva Baby , Spencer , and now The Humans , 2021 cinema is being defined by recognition that the scariest thing on the planet is f...

Wolf is a beast of a movie, but not in a good way

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Watching Wolf, a drama about a teenager with species dysphoria who thinks he's a wolf (that age-old Hollywood chestnut), unfold, I had t...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Power of the Dog is packed with extremely powerful filmmaking (SPOILERS!)

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SPOILERS FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG AHEAD THE MOVIE'S GREAT, GO WATCH IT IN THEATERS (OR ON NETFLIX ON DECEMBER 1), BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE I...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

King Richard is an imperfect but frequently moving entry in the sports movie genre

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It was only a matter of time before tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams got their own inspirational sports movie. How could they not? T...

C'mon C'mon, you gotta see the new Mike Mills movie

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The last two movies from writer/director Mike Mills were Beginners and 20th Century Women . Though telling different stories, they were both...