Category: One Thing I Like
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One Thing I Like About Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls has so many of the components of a good movie
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One Thing I Like About K-Pop Demon Hunters
I never expected this movie to treat the question “am I in the target audience?” as completely irrelevant
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One Thing I Like About Weapons
Weapons is so ingeniously structured and so confident in its tone that it feels like something genuinely new. (Spoilers)
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Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)
Predator: Killer of Killers is a beautifully-animated action movie that challenges my basic sense of media literacy. (Minor spoilers)
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One Thing I Like About Together
The body-horror-as-metaphor-for-codependency movie Together isn’t as bonkers as I’d hoped, but it does some fantastic stuff with familiar horror movie moments
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One Thing I Mostly Like About The Naked Gun
The newest version of The Naked Gun can’t live up to the brilliance of Police Squad!, but I appreciate how much it tries
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One Thing I Love About Fantastic Four: First Steps
Your ancestors called it science. You call it optimism. Fantastic Four comes from a land where they are one and the same. (No spoilers)
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One Thing I (Begrudgingly) Like About Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
The third Guardians movie is, appropriately, difficult to love, but is ultimately a cathartic and sincere farewell to the series
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One Thing I Like About Palm Springs
Palm Springs is a modern romantic comedy that works best when you watch it as a counterpoint to Groundhog Day
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One Thing I Love About Superman
Superman is the superhero comic book movie that best captures the weird, nonsensical joy of comic books. No major spoilers.
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One Thing I Love (Yeah, I Said It) About M3GAN 2.0
M3GAN 2.0 is corny AF and has all kinds of pacing issues, but its best moments are sublime in a way the original only hinted at. (Minor spoilers)
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One Thing I Thought Was Weird About Jurassic World: Rebirth
Rebirth keeps to an action movie template that’s been through so many generations that its characters and motivations are purely symbolic. (Major spoilers after a warning)