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  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Star Wars
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★★

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    ★★★★★

  • The Rules of the Game

    ★★★★½

  • Shin Kamen Rider

    ★★½

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★★

    Yeah, this is really good, just a pretty darn delightful day at the movies, and what qualms I may have about how both Miguel O'Hara and The Spot are not exactly great adversaries for Miles and Gwen here are made up for by how I absolutely expect this team to stick the landing and that it is given the space to be a Miles & Gwen movie and knows the right amount to use everyone else.

    It's a visual knockout, of…

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    ★★★★★

    One of the great things about watching 2001 in a theater is the folks who haven't seen it before and aren't ready for how shit gets real in this otherwise patient film right after intermission.

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  • The Booksellers

    The Booksellers

    ★★½

    Movies like The Booksellers don't exactly backfire when, halfway through, certain viewers find that this film meant to celebrate a rare and vanishing breed of person is instead providing examples of just how that breed rubs them the wrong way. A documentary doesn't necessarily need to be convincing to be worthy, but at times there is enough self-satisfaction evident in this one to visibly crowd out the more dynamic stories that filmmaker D.W. Young could be telling.

    You almost have…

  • My Broken Mariko

    My Broken Mariko

    ★★★★★

    A solid, sympathetic story about a woman trying to come to terms with how she just couldn't do enough for her best friend. It's a thing that could be too earnestly somber or too casual, but instead comes from a place that could be horrifying but instead has a shred of optimism: Mariko may have been done from the start, but that doesn't make her friend's attempt to help without value.

    It works in large part because of its great…