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  The Penguin Lessons 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Watch my video review on Substack: fbunplugged.substack.com/p/watch-review-of-the-penguin-lessons?r=4bdr5

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  Snow White 2025

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Full review here: open.substack.com/pub/fbunplugged/p/watch-review-of-disneys-snow-white?r=4bdr5&utm_medium=ios

Popular reviews

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Full review: fbunplugged.substack.com/p/watch-review-of-novocaine?r=4bdr5

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  The Happy Prince 2018

  ★★★★ Added

  “The Happy Prince” draws its title from one of Wilde’s short stories, a parable about love and suffering.

  Everett threads the film’s screenplay with prose from that story, with Wilde himself telling the story to others, its implicit wisdom heavy in his delivery.

  It’s just one way Everett informs the film with the artist’s voice and obsessions as he understands them. As a result, it lends the film a melancholic tone befitting its subject.

  It’s all a part of presenting…