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Logan

Le Mans ’66 (aka Ford v Ferrari) movie review: when “circle back” meant something else in corporatespeak

Thu, Nov 14, 2019
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A winning (if overearnest) depiction of manly friendship, with some pretty thrilling (if only technically so) racing stuff. But it doesn’t see its potential to be actually culturally significant.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie review: animation gets reanimated

Wed, Dec 12, 2018
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Has a verve rare in big-budget movies at the moment. Fun and fresh and legitimately engages with its source material on the levels of story, visuals, and mythology all at once. It feels like discovering storytelling anew.

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my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 05, 2018
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I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

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OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 28, 2017
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Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.

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Murder on the Orient Express movie review: strangers on a train

Mon, Nov 06, 2017
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Doubly dated, lacking in humor and subtext, its impressive cast deliberately underutilized, this is little more than an exercise in gorgeous production design.

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curated: a whole buncha critics (including me) on the best movies of 2017 so far

Wed, Jul 12, 2017
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Polled for this was my top 10 so far…

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curated: everything that’s wrong with Hollywood today.

Sun, Jun 25, 2017
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This is ridiculous.

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curated: Hugh Jackman doing ADR for ‘Logan’

Tue, Mar 07, 2017
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How the movie sausage gets made.

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Logan movie review: wounded Wolverine, dangerous beast

Mon, Feb 27, 2017
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The X-Men series — the entire superhero genre — has never seen a film like Logan before: raw, rageful, tormented, human. Best of the series yet.

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from Facebook: so, forget that whole “Logan doesn’t age” thing…

Thu, Oct 20, 2016
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