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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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The image and Perfect Blue
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Satoshi Kon uses his powers of composition to confront his audience with the horrors of an industry that destroys women’s lives.
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I can appreciate No Way Home’s carnival of IP exhibitionism
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For a movie produced solely to earn cheap applause from tirelessly nostalgic audiences, it’s not half-bad.
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No one under the age of 60 has any reason to watch The Wild Geese
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This is a stacked cast you would be better off watching in literally any other movie.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox and its masterful intimacy
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The wild animals of Wes Anderson’s first stop-motion feature are more human than anyone else he has depicted onscreen.
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The pure cool of Death Proof
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Tarantino’s most explicit genre pastiche has a style unto itself unlike anything else in his filmography.
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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.