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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
DreamWorks hasn't made a masterpiece in some time, so I suppose it's fitting their last fully in-house production would be one. "The Wild Robot" is DreamWorks at its best, firing on all cylinders.
The story is fairly basic: a robot crashes into an isolated wilderness and has to survive in the wild while caring for a gosling orphaned by the robot's actions. Over the course of the film, the robot becomes increasingly attached to both the wilderness and its feathered…
An absolutely powerful, underrated documentary about an aspect of Cambodian history and the ripple effects of the Vietnam War I was previously unaware of, "Don't Think I've Forgotten" is as much about the creative artistry of the people of Cambodia as it is about the genocidal regime that murdered them.
The documentary begins with its interview subjects talking about the centrality of music in Cambodian culture, which explains why many developed a deep affection for western music - particularly American…
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Wow! It took me 10 years to finally check this out?
This was a refreshing take on the "Groundhog Day"-style time loop. What if your enemy had the power to rewind time as many times as they liked so they could undo their mistakes and beat you in combat? Pretty nightmarish concept to make the time loop itself a weapon of war.
The pacing is terrific and the plot doesn't waste any time to get going. Like Tom Cruise's character,…
Talk about a powerhouse!
Had to think of a good word to describe the film I'd seen, and "powerhouse" is accurate. This could have been a phoned-in adaptation, but everyone involved really brought their A-game. Grande is surprisingly good at acting as well as singing, and Erivo is very expressive even with all that makeup on her. Jeff Goldblum was an inspired casting choice for the wizard, I didn't know Michelle Yeoh could sing - is there anything that woman…