Category: Movies
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No Insight To Be Had Out There
Shallow takes on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” are a perfect example of faux-progressive pop cultural simplification for the Twitter generation
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Now They Set Their Clocks By Mine
Moana is a by-the-numbers Disney princess movie that keeps going off-script to transform into something inspired.
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One of the Good Ones
Zootopia is surprisingly great, and a reminder of the value of family movies as parable
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Would That It Were So Simple
A cursory and non-reductive look at Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen
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It’s a Shame About Rey
Another note about The Force Awakens, merchandising, and spoiler culture. Contains huge spoilers, obviously.
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It’s True. All of It.
Why I unabashedly love Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how much I’ve missed being able to unabashedly love a movie
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Lowest Common Denormative
What terrible reviews of Trainwreck tell us about the sorry state of pop-progressivism on the Internet
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Inside Out
Inside Out reminds us that we can’t be happy all of the time, an idea that angered, disgusted and frightened me.
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Avengers: Age of Um, Not So Much
Avengers: Age of Ultron does strain under the weight of years of TV shows and movies. Not Marvel’s, though.