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  • Happy Gilmore 2 is an admirably okay legacy sequel

    Happy Gilmore 2 is an admirably okay legacy sequel

    July 26, 2025

    Happy Madison Productions’ cynically produced continuation of a story which concluded 29 years ago fails to enrich the original, but its effect is ultimately harmless.

  • Hard Eight, a prodigious 26-year-old’s homage to the wizened masters of the past

    Hard Eight, a prodigious 26-year-old’s homage to the wizened masters of the past

    July 14, 2025

    The movie offering the most insight into Paul Thomas Anderson’s whole career is also his first.

  • Deadpool & Wolverine is the safest possible version of itself

    Deadpool & Wolverine is the safest possible version of itself

    August 6, 2024

    Shawn Levy’s latest collaboration with Ryan Reynolds is not an irreverent mockery of Marvel, but a redressing of what to expect from multiverse gruel.

Dead Poets Society and its fake rebellion

September 9, 2022
Opposition to authority in Peter Weir’s coming-of-age dramedy consists of the kind of life advice that should remain on Hallmark cards.
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A colourful roundabout in the middle of the urban paradise which pipes up near the end of the film.

Jacques Tati inimitably satirizes the waste of industrialism in PlayTime

February 16, 2022
Sound and dimension are used to their fullest extent to disorient Monsieur Hulot, as well as the audience, in the intricate metropolis of this macroscopic comedy.
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Everything you’ve heard about Earwig and the Witch is true (derogatory)

November 25, 2021
You have no reason to see this ugly and deeply uncomfortable mistake of a film.
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Robin Robin is some cute fare from a studio at the height of its talents

November 24, 2021
All is not lost in a world where Aardman hangs onto its status as a wholly original animation house that gets to make shorts like this.
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The Founder is a convincing, albeit confined biography of a vulture

November 24, 2021
No one will come away from this movie respecting Ray Kroc, but in the hands of John Lee Hancock, no one will be pushed to excessively question capitalism either.
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Endlessly energetic, Miyazaki’s Lupin movie cannot be understated in its creativity.

November 20, 2021
Literally, it actively refuses to be understated or relaxed, it will not slow down.
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Spencer is a fantastical study into the character of Princess Diana

November 17, 2021
Kristen Stewart’s performance in this fable is fully captured by Pablo Larraín’s surreally tense direction.
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Wes Anderson is feeding his indulgences more than usual in The French Dispatch

November 10, 2021
Politics are supercharged in the director’s latest feature, but so is the dollhouse.
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The unfortunately entertaining conservative utopia of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

November 6, 2021
Tarantino directs a movie too stylish for its own good in his obsessive effort to revive the glitz and glamour of a Los Angeles which never existed.
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