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Minecraft: The Story of Mojang 2012
A well shot documentary that doesn't have a lot to say about much of anything except that Minecraft is amazing. The gushing throughout reaches absurd levels. Taking cues from rock band docs, The Story of Mojang starts with an assumption of its subject's greatness and proceeds to meander. It's not until an hour in where we get a glimpse of what makes Minecraft special. By that time it's too late - we've already been told how great the game is…
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Only the Young 2012
A brief look at three California teenagers in the suburbs doing what they do, which is at once not much and a whole lot. Great soundtrack with a cinematic look. Hard to beat.
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Lost in Translation 2003
The chemistry between an unlikely pairing of Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson can’t be beat. Their odd and lonesome shuffle through a country foreign to both of them is inexplicably compelling. Lost in Translation says so much in so few words. And who would’ve guessed Bill Murray’s last whisper would be, “For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.”?
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