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Mean Girls 2024
In 2004, I watched the original Mean Girls when it released in movie theaters. There’s a reason why it remains an enduring high school comedy. It’s not just the seemingly timeless humor, or the endlessly quotable dialogue. It’s because Mean Girls was an accurate portrayal of the high school experience; it showed just how mean high school truly is.
Twenty years later, Mean Girls has returned. This time, it’s an adaptation of the Broadway musical. And when you wipe away…
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Extraction 2 2023
In Extraction 2, the action comes first. Everything else is in service to the action. That’s usually a recipe for disaster, but it somehow works here. The action is so relentless, so perfectly executed, that it makes the rest of the movie feel better than it really is.
I spent the vast majority of the movie riding high from the nonstop action. But near the end, the movie started to fall apart for me. Character decisions started to feel really…
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RRR 2022
I’ve consumed a steady diet of American movies my entire life. With so many genres and decades of movies to pick from, it’s been easy to delude myself into thinking I’m more cultured than I actually am. But if I have one weak spot in my movie watching habit, it’s that I haven’t seen many foreign films.
I preface my review of RRR with this admission because I think it’s important to know that I have no deep knowledge or…