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  Mortal Engines 2018

  

  Fred Kolb ★★½ 2

  I’ll admit that I was way more pumped to see “Mortal Engines” a month ago, before the lackluster reviews dropped and it picked up the dubious distinction of being the…

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  Knives Out 2019

  

  Fred Kolb ★★★★½

  Rian Johnson’s Thanksgiving fun for the whole family is equal parts smart and funny, a biting iteration of the worst kind of family get-together spiraling out of control. This is…

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  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014

  

  anna kendrick lamar ★★★★½

  Movies are so rarely truly unique that when something like Birdman comes along, you have to sit there and smile. Iñárritu's latest film is a tour-de-force if there ever was…

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  Cube 1997

  

  mosquitodragon ★★★½ 2

  The greatest thing about Cube is the fact that they used five actors and probably a single room to stage the whole thing. It's really quite ingenious, and the fiendish…

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  THX 1138 1971

  

  Jerry McGlothlin ★★½ 8

  Pharmaceutical-fugue-state based solely on productivity in exchange for human emotions. THX 1138 is an iceberg. Its sterile, detached environment and cold characters admittedly provided me with a similarly frigid viewing experience.…

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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  

  anna kendrick lamar ★★★½

  An inspired spin on the origin story formula in that the hero already knows exactly who he is, his secrets left to be discovered by the supporting players and his…

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  Extraction 2020

  

  Fred Kolb ★★½

  There isn’t much to say about “Extraction” that I couldn’t copy and paste into any given review for several other Netflix originals. You’d be hard pressed to find much beyond…

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  Soul 2020

  

  Fred Kolb ★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.