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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967
There's a lot of dreck here, but the movie, to its credit, wrestles with the internalized racism of its outwardly broadminded power couple (Tracy and Hepburn) in didactic exchanges that really shouldn't feel as timely as they do. This isn't bigots turning over a new leaf, it's Get Out libs reaping what they sowed, having never considered the possibility of it happening in their lifetime. That's...interesting. What isn't interesting are the Poitier and Houghton characters: he's a dashboard saint and…
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Gigli 2003
As much as I wanted to be the weirdo who liked this and leapt to its defense, it's so dense with flop sweat you could wring it out. The studio-mandated romance strands most of the movie in a lifeless apartment, but doing away with it wouldn't fix the leads' essential miscasting: Affleck's wet sentimentality soaks through his dumb-goombah act (Jon Bernthal was too young at the time, but his type is exactly what this movie calls for), and J-Lo is…
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Failure to Launch 2006
Kathy Bates has this beautiful moment at the end of the film where she worries about living alone with her husband of 35+ years for the first time in decades "because what if he doesn't like me?" It made me angry that I'd spent the last 100 minutes watching this movie instead of that one.