Over the last so many years, I've been trying to correct my knee-jerk rejection of melodrama in film, but movies like Four Good Days make it kind of difficult.
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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar 2021
I genuinely feel bad for those who can't get on board with Barb and Star's brand of silliness.
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Coming 2 America 2021
As far as thirty-years-too-late nostalgia-grabs are concerned, I guess it’s not the worst one that 2021 gave us.
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Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021
A transfixing concert doc and also an infuriating example of history being written by the victors.
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 2013
The sequel does a better job of realizing Riordan’s world-building than the first installment, but not nearly enough to make it worth seeking out.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 2010
You know how people joke that Lacroix tastes like someone whispered the name of a fruit from across the room or some such? That’s what this adaptation feels like - just the faintest whisper of the source material.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
I probably would’ve liked it more if I didn’t see Spider-Verse do the same concept much better three years ago.