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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★ Watched by A.A. Dowd 24 Feb 2022 3

  My final A.V. Club review. Might as well use this space to say that I'm officially a free agent. Anyone in need of a writer and editor with a decade-plus of professional experience, shoot me a DM on Twitter.

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  Benediction 2021

  ★★★★ Added by A.A. Dowd

  Full Empire review. "Why do you hate the modern world?" "Because it's younger than me."

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  The Innocents 2021

  ★★½ Watched by A.A. Dowd 12 May 2022

  Full Digital Trends review. There's just not much to this—narratively, thematically, formally. Pretty good child actors, though.

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  ParaNorman 2012

  ★★★★ Rewatched by A.A. Dowd 03 Nov 2018 5

  "What do you think you're doing firing on civilians? That's for the police to do!"

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ★★½ Watched by A.A. Dowd 10 Dec 2021 1

  Pivotal scene is the bluntly confessional conversation where the movie just comes right out and tells us that Warner Bros. was going to make more Matrix with or without everyone involved, so Lana and Keanu and company signed on to protect the franchise best they could. Afraid I don't find that daring so much as just depressingly revealing: a kind of apology for the film's very existence—and one that betrays the animating inspiration of the whole endeavor as a begrudged,…