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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
Its heart is in the right place and Nick Park is just a treasure as always, but it’d be hard to make a case that this isn’t the weakest W&G. The visual gags feel like reruns, and not a single joke with the gnome-bots works for me. That said, I could watch Gromit sip tea and plod around the house on all fours for 90 minutes and still be delighted.
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Nightbitch 2024
Amy Adams riffing off a kid who’s surely ad-libbing most of the time is a fun way of exercising her skill in new ways; no complaint about any of the scenes with the two of them, which often sparkle, especially in the first 30 minutes.
Otherwise pretty toothless and overwritten, with a central relationship story that would feel thin in a 90’s sitcom. Lots of momblog platitudes and monologuing about a deep, untamed feral streak that’s described in voiceover a…
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The Dead Don't Die 2019
Beloved and self-aware indie film director Jim Jarmusch opens his Actors Rolodex and assembles the JARMUSCH AVENGERS for The Dead Don’t Die; a zombie movie that isn’t a zombie movie so much as it is a movie about beloved and self-aware indie film director Jim Jarmusch making a zombie movie. It knows it’s a bad movie, tells you at length that it knows it’s a bad movie, but doesn’t do anything interesting with the fact that it’s a bad movie. I’ve never sat in a theater so palpably tired of being winked at before.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 2015
Obviously this doesn’t even cross my radar without the Till Death Do Us Blart podcast, but like most(?) McElroy/Worst Idea fans I eventually took the holy thanksgiving pilgrimage, and came out the other side battered but not broken.
It’s bad in the ways you already know it’ll be bad, and it makes no effort to explain or justify itself, so maybe I’m grading on a curve. But despite having literally zero laughs in it, and despite containing one truly baffling…
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