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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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Everything you’ve heard about Earwig and the Witch is true (derogatory)
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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Minority Report and the absolute power of law enforcement
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This manic, impeccably directed thriller presents fascinating ruminations on the control pursued by the highest authorities of society.
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Ghibli never misses, I swear. Just ignore Ocean Waves.
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As it turns out, disaster strikes when you hand young, unexperienced animators the most stressful job in the world.
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The Wizard of Lies assumes a lot about how much I pity the Madoff family
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There is little justification as to why this film follows the successors to corporate greed as though they are tragic victims.