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  Crazy Rich Asians 2018

  ★½ Watched 27 Jul 2022

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

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  La Strada 1954

  ★★★★½ Added

  The major complaint people lob at Fellini is that he falls victim to oversentimentality and melodrama. More specific complaints may be given to specific eras in his career—his post-50s films are too extravagant and meaninglessly excessive perhaps being the most common criticism—but for every picture in his filmography, there are always bound to be detractors complaining about the melodrama. Melodrama—justifiably, I might add—gets a bad rap in the film criticism world for evoking emotional manipulation rather than more intelligent discussion,…

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  2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  ★★★★★ Added

  Depending on my mood, this is either one of the best movies ever made, or the single greatest one. I suppose it's dependent on how much I'm valuing a strong, dramatic human story at any given moment, because in that regard this film is surely lacking. What it does have, rather, is something far grander and more impressive in scale: an exploration of the past and future evolution of mankind. It remains, more than 50 years later, one of the…

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  Black Panther 2018

  ★½ Watched 20 Dec 2018 1

  There was clearly effort put in to make this movie genuinely good, but the overall experience is marred by some major flaws, so it is not good. Actually, it's bad. There's always a major reservation for every positive thing this film does. Wakanda looks great, and a lot of the sets are simply amazing. However, the effects are surprisingly poor for a Marvel film, though it doesn't tarnish the overall design much. For the first time since Loki, "Black Panther"…

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