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Paddington in Peru movie review: bad things happen when you leave the city

Thu, Feb 13, 2025
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Colorful but flattened and flimsy, which really grates next to how abundantly, uniquely original the first two movies are. Suffers greatly from the lack of their deft whimsy. It’s, well, bearly there.

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daily stream: the muse’s tale… from her own perspective

Mon, Sep 11, 2023
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2009’s Bright Star is on Prime in the UK, but criminally streaming nowhere in the US.

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No Time to Die movie review: no, Mr Bond, I expect you to retire

Thu, Oct 07, 2021
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In the era of COVID and Brexit, much of this overstuffed adventure feels redundant, farcical, inconsequential, and desperate. But Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch show us the way to a future for 007.

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Paddington 2 movie review: wrap yourself up in this bear hug

Fri, Nov 10, 2017
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There is such kindness here, such humanity, such warmth and optimism. This is a fantasy of unique scope and astonishing emotional depth beneath the silliness.

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The Danish Girl movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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Safe, conventional, and not particularly sympathetic to women, cis or trans. Mistakes the external signifiers of femininity with actually being a woman.

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In the Heart of the Sea movie review: here be monsters (and whales)

Wed, Dec 09, 2015
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Solid, old-school man-versus-nature adventure melodrama, with a simmering green awareness; rollicking, smart, breathtaking, and sobering.

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Paddington movie review: please look in on this movie, thank you

Wed, Nov 26, 2014
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Adorable. So witty and compassionate and bittersweet and just the right little bit of snarky that you will cry tears of joy from the perfection of it.

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Lilting movie review: when words fail

Fri, Aug 08, 2014
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A heartbreakingly lovely film about the seemingly insurmountable distances between us when sharing grief is too painful.

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The Hollow Crown trailer: dead kings, hot guys

Tue, Aug 13, 2013
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Let us tell sad stories of the death of kings. And let the kings be played by the hottest guys in the land.

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Sun, Mar 17, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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