it’s all over when the Concrete Donkey shows up in Messiah
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Wonka 2023
A fairly fun but flawed December musical that completely erases any of the problematic elements of the iconic businessman at its center, such as his mistreatment of those who worked for him, his penchant for manipulation, and his complete disregard for human life in general.
But enough about The Greatest Showman.
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The Holdovers 2023
There’s this recent trend I’ve noticed when seeing movies in New Jersey where a group of teenagers will walk into a theater in the middle of a movie, talk loudly, use their phones at full brightness, watch TikTok videos at full volume, roam around the room, take flash photos, and then leave after fifteen minutes. Incredibly, it’s rare that when this happens they don’t do every single one of those listed actions, as if it’s a new agreed-upon moviegoing tradition.…
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Lilo & Stitch 2002
This was my first favorite film as a kid, the first movie I saw where I consciously thought “I like this more than anything else I’ve seen”. I used to watch it about weekly (along with the straight-to-video sequels and the TV series), but at this point it had probably been more than 15 years since I’d seen it.
I remember that many of my countless rewatches as a kid were when I would be home sick from school. Watching…
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023
They fixed it. (Kind of. Still far below Game Night. Also kind of preferred when the CGI wasn’t finished because then I could at least imagine it would end up looking good)
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023
I would’ve given it 5 stars, but unfortunately the character Dr. Robert Laing is not in the movie.
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Original Cast Album: Company 1970
[with Stephen Sondheim’s commentary for Criterion]
I could listen to this man talk forever. He has such a clear and detailed way of explaining things and talking about his own work. And he’s just, like, the best.
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M3GAN 2022
There are plenty of great PG-13 horror movies, but I find it really odd that a movie with a “this thing you’re not used to seeing be violent is going to do violence” premise is so unwilling to show any violence, constantly cutting away as early as possible in every horror sequence as if it wants to get them over with as quickly as possible. Malignant works because it fully commits to its insane premise, whereas this feels like it’s…