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Your personal guide to good opinions about movies.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The Guilty is a classic wrongheaded remake of a foreign film
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s central performance commands enough fury to carry the chamber piece, but doesn’t justify why it is one in the first place.
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I’m not being an alarmist when I tell you Free Guy is from Hell
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The Academy Award-nominated Fortnite movie is our punishment for entrusting Taika Waititi and Ryan Reynolds with blank cheques to corporate franchise filmmaking.