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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2023
Easily the best TMNT movie, not that there's any hard competition.
The writing, the acting, and the story are all solid, but what really makes TMNT: Mutant Mayhem an exceptional film is the art style. It's all squiggly and caricature, perfectly cartoony. After movies like Spider-Verse, Puss in Boots The Last Wish, some recent Pixar films, The Mitchells vs The Machines, some Dreamworks films, and The Peanuts Movie, it's hard to go back to the mathematically perfect computer animation that…
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The Fall of the House of Usher 2023
I should love Mike Flanagan. He has an easily recognizable visual style. His writing is distinctive. He's a director who's great with both actors doing dialog-driven scenes and striking visual storytelling. I do love his movies, thoroughly. It's ever since he started doing TV that I haven't been able to appreciate his work.
It's down to that I can't consider "Hill House, Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, Midnight Club, and House of Usher" to be TV, I consider them as 8-hour…
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999
A wise man once said, "even the worst Star Wars movie is better than any other movie ever made".