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The Sunlit Night movie review: room to breathe and think in wide-open spaces

Wed, Jul 15, 2020
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A ramble with appealingly messy people rethinking their priorities that is perhaps more charming and touching than it might have been if this pandemic summer didn’t have so many of us doing the same.

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Missing Link movie review: unevolved throwback

Sat, Apr 06, 2019
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A quite literally cartoonishly awful protagonist, a plot that makes no sense, lowbrow humor, and terrible gender dynamics add up to an unpleasant retro mess.

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The Lego Batman Movie review: give a minifig

Tue, Feb 07, 2017
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A great Batman movie, a great superhero movie, and a gloriously bonkers expression of the sublime silliness of crime fighters in capes, and our love of them.

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Keeping Up with the Joneses movie review: no, let them go

Mon, Oct 24, 2016
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Take True Lies and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Remove wit, sexy charm, and satire on marriage. This is a recipe for a movie anyone wants to see?

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) movie review: winged infamy

Tue, Feb 24, 2015
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It’s all a bit satirical. Or maybe not. Look, over there, Shakespeare in a superhero cape!

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The Hangover Part III review: get pissed

Fri, May 24, 2013
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It’s like they realized they never should have made a sequel, so for Part III, they didn’t even bother to make a Hangover movie at all…

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 30-Apr 5 2013

Sun, Apr 07, 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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The Campaign (review)

Wed, Oct 24, 2012
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Bitter, brutal, and — unfortunately for the hopes and dreams of the American people — very very pointedly funny.

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question of the day: Imagine the last film you watched is going to happen to you in real life: how screwed are you?

Mon, Sep 24, 2012
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Here’s a meme that’s apparently been circling the Web for a while now that I only just came across the other day…

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Puss in Boots (review)

Wed, Dec 14, 2011
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I’m pretty sure that the reason Antonio Banderas was put on this planet was to make Puss in Boots speak…

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