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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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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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Hard Eight, a prodigious 26-year-old’s homage to the wizened masters of the past
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The movie offering the most insight into Paul Thomas Anderson’s whole career is also his first.
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Aesthetic politics in The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
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Miyazaki’s reckoning with beauty and fascism is depicted with more depth in this documentary than in his own The Wind Rises.
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Night is Short, Walk On Girl is a pleasant nightmare movie
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Plot synopsis has never been more irrelevant than with Masaaki Yuasa’s colours-and-shapes masterpiece.
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War’s torment in Grave of the Fireflies
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Isao Takahata’s least hopeful movie allows its audience to experience a piece of the inaccessible lives of those devastated by warfare.
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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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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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An insufficient analysis of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
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Isao Takahata’s magnum opus is a true masterwork to which no writing can ever do justice — at least not mine.
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There’s no movie more underrated than Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
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Although the troupe’s headline movie found no critical or commercial success at the time, today it is a riot.