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  • The Electric State

    ★★

  • The Nice Guys

    ★★★½

  • The Parenting

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★

    I don’t understand why there have been so many films recently with bad scripts. For this having the largest budget for a Netflix movie at $320 million, you would think they would hire someone better to write this thing.

    I will give it to Netflix and the Russo brothers, though, that the attention to detail with small visual aspects of the story was impressive at times. The fact that no one robot looked like the other was unique. 

    Chris Pratt…

  • The Nice Guys

    The Nice Guys

    ★★★½

    This was a wild time, and I was very here for it! The nonsense moments of physical comedy were strategically placed and hit the mark a lot of times for me. The storyline was a little hard to follow here and there, but the performances made the entire movie enjoyable despite this.

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    This was a fun time! Although it has some on the nose political commentary and a pretty predictable plot for the most part, I enjoyed the humor and Robert Pattinson’s performance.

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★

    Films with POV elements have been done before and have failed. But Nickel Boys that it can be done well. I’m ashamed I hadn’t heard of the events at the Florida School for Boys prior to watching this. Taking a factionalized POV approach to a story like this was a smart and respectful choice. Props to the filmmakers for not simply throwing black trauma in our faces and rather highlighting a blossoming friendship that was formed through dark times. That…

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