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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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When the subtext becomes text in Jay Kelly
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Noah Baumbach interrogates the cost of celebrity before turning around to congratulate George Clooney for his body of work.
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Happy Gilmore 2 is an admirably okay legacy sequel
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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.
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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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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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Squid Game = capitalism, et cetera
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Anti-capitalist media made by capitalists may ultimately serve capitalism, but this series undoubtedly raises the right questions.