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Game of Thrones

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb documentary review: slow journalism

Sat, Jan 07, 2023
3 comments

The crisp, congenial charms of this intimate exploration of a decades-long working partnership overlay an unsentimental elegy for an era in journalism and publishing that has all but disappeared.

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The King’s Daughter movie review: a royal disaster

Fri, Jan 21, 2022
12 comments

Ostensibly a movie in the same way that a Victorian folly is ostensibly a Japanese temple or a medieval castle. That is: not at all. Like a themed high-school prom from 1994, and an accidental horror.

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Knives Out movie review: catch your death of fun (LFF 2019)

Mon, Nov 25, 2019
31 comments

An entirely entertaining murder-mystery jape; dryly funny, deliciously retro yet decidedly modern. Whenever you think you’ve got it figured out, it trips you up again… and you love it for doing so.

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Last Christmas movie review: give it your heart, get your heart stomped

Sun, Nov 17, 2019
25 comments

Love and life are pain, the glitz and sparkle of Christmas are but a momentary reprieve from it, and everything is pretty much unrelentingly awful. But Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are adorable!

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Avengers: Endgame movie review: with a bang *and* a whimper

Wed, May 01, 2019
148 comments

A miraculous blend of grief and humor. Big, bold, brash, then sneakily meta. I am only starting to get my head around the emotional and creative right-hook of it. A fitting end (for now) to the MCU.

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curated: Trump’s misunderstanding of ‘Game of Thrones’ is totally emblematic of our culture today

Mon, Jan 07, 2019
16 comments

Alas, Trump and his fans are not tuned in to metaphor. That sort of thing is for experts and intellectuals, who are not to be trusted.

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curated: long-lost Kit Harington/Toothless audition tapes surface

Fri, Dec 14, 2018
2 comments

Advice for actors: Never work with children or dragons.

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Sherlock Gnomes movie review: oh gnome they didn’t… (they did)

Thu, May 10, 2018
10 comments

A flimsy treasure-hunt plot, a sexy song-and-dance number, and more of the same Elton John songs deployed with trite, lazy tedium. They mean to keep cranking out these dumb, dull movies, don’t they?

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Bastille Day (aka The Take) movie review: French toast

Thu, Apr 21, 2016
1 comment

A fake movie busted out into reality! But this not-even would-be jokey riff on Hollywood doesn’t know how to fill the air between car chases and punchups.

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Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5) movie review: game of moles

Mon, Nov 30, 2015
12 comments

A ridiculous, rote action thriller, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining, crammed with all sorts of macho emoting and spy nonsense as it is.

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