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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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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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Obligatory praise for 2001
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Kubrick’s canonized magnum opus spells great and terrible things for the future humanity is building for itself.
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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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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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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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Only Yesterday and the familiarity of boredom
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Unless you are constantly riveted by the plot of your everyday life, Isao Takahata’s intimate film will remind you of yourself.