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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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The sociopaths of Whiplash
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Damien Chazelle’s distressing two-hander is an effective study in how to destroy your life piece by piece while grasping onto delusion.
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Lady Bird, a near-universal memoir
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This darling of modern teen cinema caters almost flawlessly to the general experience of its audience by faithfully recounting the specific experience of its director.
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Why does The Shawshank Redemption resonate so much?
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Since its release in 1994, the film’s place in the popular consciousness has never shown any signs of fading away.
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Scream takes advantage of its audience’s movie trope psychosis
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Kevin Williamson’s screenplay uses your familiarity with the horror genre against you, with help from Wes Craven’s master craftmanship.
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Apocalypse Now and the cost of imperialism
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Coppola’s detached, nihilistic opus somehow accepts the idea that American soldiers suffered the worst during the War in Vietnam.