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  The Creator 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2023

  Full IGN review. Soft sci-fi, incredible filmmaking. If I was a Hollywood executive, I'd be trying to attach Edwards to every big-canvas blockbuster I had.

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  Strays 2023

  ★★½ Watched 15 Aug 2023

  Full IGN review. Even R-rated talking-dog comedies are not immune to Hollywood's obsession with self-help platitudes.

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2023 26

  Spirited, inherently hopeless effort to reconcile all the competing imperatives of making a live-action Barbie movie in the year 2023. It's knowing prefab camp that both revels in and loudly interrogates the retro appeal of Barbie. It's representationally inclusive while gently acknowledging that Mattel's forays into diversifying Barbie were, of course, financially motivated. It bites the hand that feeds (plays?) by pointing out the gender disparity within a company with a predominately female consumer base, while also covering for that…

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  ParaNorman 2012

  ★★★★ Rewatched 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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