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Dog Man 2025
The animation and the world is wonderfully done-- previously I would have said it was impossible to translate the drawings from the books to the big screen. What I found missing is that irreverent sort of humor that I recall was in the books; there could have been plenty more jokes.
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Despicable Me 4 2024
For what I'm guessing is the finale of this series (?) the plot feels pretty low-stakes. What's funny is how often they literally pause the whole movie to let the minions do their little bit.
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The Red Shoes 1948
The ballet sequence at the core of The Red Shoes is one of the best scenes in all of cinema, which is why it's hard to admit that, for me at least, the film overall is not really as great as it might've been. Its themes and many of its visuals have always been interesting, but the story is presented so robotically that it's hard to be entertained by it. The movie tells and doesn't show, so to speak. For…
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Hoop Dreams 1994
One day several years ago now I was listening to the great Roger Ebert list his top ten movies of the 1990s. I was expecting to hear the usual suspects: Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, etc. And while they were largely present, I was shocked to hear that his pick for the single greatest film of that decade was one I had never heard of, some documentary called Hoop Dreams. A documentary, no less!
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