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  • mother!

    ★★½

  • Road House

  • sex, lies, and videotape

    ★★½

  • This Is Spinal Tap

    ★★★

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  • mother!

    mother!

    ★★½

    Honk if you'd rather be watching MOTHER (Albert Brooks, 1996)!

  • Road House

    Road House

    I love Jakey G but this is pretty charmless

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★½

    Unfortunately, my less-than-generous opinion of this is that if I wanted to listen to a series of covers of normie Bob Dylan songs, there is always www.youtube.com.

  • Arrival

    Arrival

    ★★★★

    When I first heard about Arrival, I thought it was about aliens. When I saw it in 2016, I thought it was mostly about language and somewhat about aliens. Now, in 2021, five years and some children later, I don't quite think it's about either, and I'm hard pressed to think of another movie where the central plot often seems so incidental to the central themes. It's a beautiful sci-fi meditation on memory, the passage of time, and the ways…

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