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  Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2022

  Watched by Marie 21 May 2022

  For a movie about foiling a plot to infringe Disney copyrights (ew) it sure makes a lot of arguments for fair use

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  Bernie 2011

  Watched by Marie 20 May 2022

  Linklater’s casting of The Townsfolk (some actors, some not) is so good that he lets it crowd out a career-high performance from Shirley MacLaine + reliably great work from Jack Black. The interview device started cute but became distracting, then grating.  

  Stop telling me about the character; show me the character. Let the Sunset-Boulevard horror show play out for more than a minute or two before yanking me out of it so you can explain it to me. If I…

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  Die Hard 1988

  Watched by Marie 21 Dec 2020

  by the end of the reagan years america was primed and ready for an action movie that ends on a grace note of “LAPD cop haunted by the time he shot an unarmed teen finally learns to kill again”

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  Stranger Than Fiction 2006

  Watched by Marie 23 Feb 2021 8

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

  This movie is a good satire of contemporary literary fiction with overly precious elements of magical realism but the big twist is that the book is supposed to be good? I thought it sounded like a real piece of shit. And of course, there is zero effort to explain why, exactly, this protagonist must die to advance the themes of the novel, which may or may not have any themes at all. 

  Liked it though. Dece 2000s mids, the weeknight treat