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  • Oppenheimer
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Dark Knight Rises

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  • A Clockwork Orange

    ★★½

  • Gladiator

    ★★★★

  • Soul

    ★★★½

  • Eagle Eye

    ★★★½

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  • A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange

    ★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Gladiator

    Gladiator

    ★★★★

    If Russell Crowe fumbles a sword the same way he fumbles baddies, this movie would’ve been a YouTube short.

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★½

    Narrative: 1
    Dialogue: 2
    Visuals: 4
    Action: 1

    Rating: 1.5 out of 5

    This movie only runs out of s**t writing because it runs out of screentime. I don't know how a film like this manages to disappoint me, since 'part ones' are my thing. They're pretty easy to write and generally enjoy a lot more quality dialogue, character development, and narrative approach to the storytelling. Instead of describing the bad things about the movie, since there's so many, I'll…

  • Soul

    Soul

    ★★★½

    In the current film environment, it's a masterpiece, which is to say that "Soul" is a truly exceptional movie with serious, legitimate depth. In terms of writing, it settles one of the major problems with children's movies today - that many of them are sickeningly generic and intellectually poisonous, teaching kids lessons like 'be yourself' without exploring the normative problem of how to achieve such ideals in our imperfect world.

    "Soul" does not fall into this trap because it is…

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