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  Falling for Figaro 2020

  ★★ Added

  Part 3 of "Danielle McDonald proves to the haters that she can do stuff" (after Patti Cakes$ and Dumplin') is the weakest in the series.

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  Father Stu 2022

  ★★½ Added

  Most of the screenplay--dialogue, characterization, et cetera--is pretty bad, with the exception of Stu himself. Also, the Marian apparition was a joke. If you're going full-mystical then make it as glorious and trippy as they're usually described! Still, it's got heart and deserves recognition for not glazing over the parts of a journey to faith that usually gets artificially sanitized....which of course they undercut by releasing a PG-13 version with a lot of language cut out. You gotta laugh.

  Regardless,…

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  Army of the Dead 2021

  ★★ Added 1

  Despite my long-running dislike of Zack Snyder as a storyteller, I've always given him kudos as a visual composer. Imagine my disappointment at how goddamn bad this movie looks.

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  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

  ★★★★★ Added 4

  As a child, I dreamt of superheroes.

  Greek mythology was my first exposure to the fantastic. I devoured these stories and anything like them. Here was something that touched me on both a visceral and intellectual level that nothing had in my young life. Folklore and myths from all over the world augmented this wonder, and it was quite natural for me to link these modes of storytelling to the superheroes I visited through Saturday morning cartoons (and later comic…

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