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Ready Player One 2018
What a huge swing-and-miss. Just MacGuffin upon MacGuffin upon MacGuffin, without any convincing explanation of why everyone in the future is obsessed with 1980s popular culture. The Iron Giant part is the biggest betrayal of all.
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Straight Outta Compton 2015
“Straight Outta Compton,” the new biopic of pioneering gangsta rap outfit NWA, is very much a conventional music biopic, with many of the conventional music biopic flaws. It relies on cliche. It’s too long by about a half hour. It distorts history in some respects and de-emphasizes things in others. It’s much, much more sympathetic to the people in the story who cooperated with the production than those who did not.
That said- I was overjoyed myself the entire time.…
