Medium script with a strong core idea and a dopey ending, elevated by sheer commitment of the main performers. Abiding love for Bill Paxton carries me through this one. And for Powers Boothe and Matty McCons, although I wish their scenes weren't in the movie. Or I wish they were in the movie but that they never linked up in any way with the Bill Paxton scenes. Just two discrete movies, one about Paxton's kids dealing with their father's murderous…
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Ghostbusters 1984
Imagine discovering incontrovertible proof of existence after death and having your first thought be "I should find a way to make money imprisoning the immortal souls of the dead in a metal box." This might be the most American movie ever made.
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Silver Linings Playbook 2012
I hated this movie so much I literally sprained my ankle running to turn it off when the end credits started.
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Arrival 2016
"The foundation of civilization isn't language, it's science." The line is spoken by alleged human Jeremy Renner, playing an alleged smart person. Just off camera, Denis Villenueve nods slowly, squinting against the brilliance of this intellectual provocation. "Yes. Cut. We did it," says Denis, as he falls off his chair and down seventeen flights of stairs and headfirst into a honey jar.