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Feb 2023

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)::rating::4.5::rating::4.5::rating::4.5

A ll Quiet on the Western Front takes place during the final agonal gasps of World War I. As the armistice threatens to answer an ugly war with an ugly…

Jan 2023

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To Leslie (2022)::rating::4.5

T o Leslie sent my thoughts back to a similar film, Hillbilly Elegy. In that middling, piddling, manipulative hooey, millionaire actors slap on prosthetics and moth-eaten flannel. For two hours, they…

Jan 2023

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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)::rating::4.5

T he Banshees of Inisherin takes place in 1923, on a little Irish island where life seems to amble along, like a pleasant stroll on a country road. As civil…

Dec 2022

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When Harry Met Sally… (1989)::rating::4

W hen Harry Met Sally... adheres to the classic rom-com spirituality, wherein nothing could ever happen by chance. Indeed, the film intersperses interviews with elderly couples, who gleefully recount the…

Dec 2022

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)::rating::4.5

T hroughout the Vacation movies, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) functions as a kind of cheerful, benevolent weapon of mass destruction. His ambition is simple, but noble: To act as catalyst for…

Dec 2022

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The Fabelmans (2022)::rating::5

W hen he directed Jaws in 1975, Steven Spielberg was hailed as a wunderkind and an overnight sensation. The truth is that Spielberg had been cranking out movies for most of his…

Dec 2022

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Tár (2022)::rating::4.5

A s we meet Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), somewhere in the deep of middle age, she's already a woman with nothing left to prove. When she sits for an interview…

Nov 2022

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This is Spinal Tap (1984)::rating::5

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever..." David St. Hubbins T ruer words have never echoed through the hallowed hallways of pop culture history. Our entire modern mythology is…

Sep 2022

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The Queen (2006)::rating::5

"I declare that my whole life, rather it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service." I t would, of course, be an unusually long life in which…

Jun 2022

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Network (1976)::rating::5

B y 1976, television had already gained momentum as a cultural hurricane, churning and demolishing everything in its path. No film predicted the tack that storm would take better than Network.…

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