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Gladiator II 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
What does it mean when we tell a story about how democracy needs to be given to the people by the elites? If the power is in the people, who are these jerks who think they can bestow it to the people?
Gladiator II is a fine movie: It has plenty of action, some intrigue, pretty good performances (and as many have said, Denzel is living his best life in this movie), and it satisfies Maximus’s question from the first…
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Woman of the Hour 2023
I guess I should have read the description before pressing “play.”
I've had some time to think more about the film and I've added some additional thoughts below since my initial post:
Recently, I’ve taken to watching movies without knowing anything about them in advance. I seem to have a vague memory of reading somewhere that Gene Siskel used to walk out of movie theaters to avoid seeing trailers. The idea was, this would allow him to experience a movie…
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F 2024
Axel F. is a good movie. It does not improve on the Beverly Hills Cop series, but it doesn’t detract from it either (this is where I would say something snarky like, “I see you Beverly Hills Cop III,” but like everybody else, I chose wisely to skip it). I had fun watching it and Eddie Murphy was in top form. Some of the plot was superfluous, but if we are operating in the mode of the Regan era movie…
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