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Reviews

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  Bright 2017

  

  Bobby ★★★

  Is Bright silly? Sure. Misguided? You bet. Does it suck? Absolutely.

  But give me an ambitious, original failure over another mediocre comic book adaptation any day of the week.

  Two…

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  Slacker 1990

  

  Grant Berridge ★★

  This film is not great; I expect more from Richard Linklater. His later work is generally much better, although the quality does vary wildly.

  This is basically a series of…

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  El Bulli: Cooking in Progress 2011

  

  Matthew Buchanan ★★½

  This was such an infuriating film to watch. While it hints at revealing the creative process and production secrets from inside the kitchen of one of the world’s most famed…

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  Brave 2012

  

  Matthew Buchanan ★★★½

  Pixar did the right thing by the viewer in not giving away the film’s central plot twist in the trailer, but in doing so set its audience up to expect…

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  Hugo 2011

  

  Matthew Buchanan ★★ 3

  If, like Todd Miro, you have an aversion to the turquoising of Hollywood blockbusters, this film will make you nothing but irate. It’s a deliberate, artistic choice here, which to…

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  Cowboys & Aliens 2011

  

  Grant Berridge ★★ 2

  I will admit that I saw this on a plane, so maybe I've marked it half a star lower than I should, but still... There's just no excuse for a…

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  Heat 1995

  

  Mike Harding ★★★★★ 6

  One of the greats. It's been a number of years since I first saw this, so thankfully I had forgotten most of the plot (aside from some of the locations…

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  Drive 2011

  

  Matthew Buchanan ★★★★★ 5

  The tech writer John Gruber is fond of a Kubrick quote about the truth of a thing being in the feel of it rather than the think of it, a…