The real victims in this movie? The birds. Living in a dark box, undoubtedly filled with their own shit, being shaken violently for days on a river. Just a family of shit-covered, concussed birds.
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If Beale Street Could Talk 2018
Has some of the same flaws as other highly reverential literary adaptations, but it's so beautifully shot, acted, and scored that I didn't really care.
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Mary Poppins Returns 2018
The people that complained about The Force Awakens being beat-for-beat like Star Wars would have a field day here.
The whole movie seems to hinge upon "remember loving this scene in Mary Poppins? Then you'll love THIS!" I should be getting swept away in this world, not feeling the filmmaker/studio orchestrating it. The movie looks exactly like a big-budget movie musical should, and Blunt is great... but it kept me at arm's length upon initial viewing, I'm depressed to report.…
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Ralph Breaks the Internet 2018
Thought this fell squarely into the "fine" category, though it's pretty cool to see a giant motion picture for kids tackling the issue of toxic masculinity.
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Vice 2018
People shit on Sorkin for giving us things like "Zuck created Facebook to impress a girl" and "Jobs created the iPod to impress his daughter," but at least Sorkin is *trying* to give us some understanding of these power-mad weirdos. McKay doesn't even bother. We just get a title card that touts how hard it is to make a movie on someone so secretive, which gets a good laugh, but in retrospect feels like a shoddy excuse for a complete…
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Support the Girls 2018
"And the Oscar goes to... Junglepussy!"
This'll cut to the core of anyone who's worked in the service industry. It'll also cut to the core of anyone who hasn't.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018
I've seen plenty of character studies focused on assholes where they clearly wanted me to care, but instead I just thought, "Fuck this movie, those people are assholes." This movie got me to care but didn't really shy away from the characters' assholery. Major props on walking that difficult tightrope.
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