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  The Wild Robot 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2024

  The Wild Robot takes residence in its well balanced humor and makes its bed with a rock-solid and moving "unconventional family" story the likes of which only Chris Sanders could lead the charge. Ultimately, The Wild Robot represents everything Jeffrey Katzenberg and Dreamworks Animation as a whole have been working towards for the last 30 years. Frankly, it's an instant classic; one of the greatest pieces of family filmmaking ever devised, and serves as yet another healthy reminder that Disney hasn't been the best at this medium in quite some time.

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Sep 2024

  I Saw the TV Glow is soaked with well-executed and very emotional parallels to transsexuality with traces of more broadly relatable identity crises we all face at such a fragile age. Most harrowing, however, is its depiction of a life rapidly slipping away... and completely devoid of any meaning. It's hopeless in nature, but has a lot to say to those who are willing to listen and learn.

Popular reviews

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  Scanners 1981

  ★★★ Watched 24 Apr 2023 2

  There must have been a flash sale on hunting shotguns with folding stocks.

  Jokes aside, Scanners never gets stuck trying to figure out what it wants to be and grows on you with each passing minute. It features some great practical visual effects, a pretty sensational climax, and intriguing world building and structure that pre-dates anomaly-driven horror that's flooded the Internet over the last decade which not only retroactively makes it a more exciting watch today than it probably was in the early 80s, but also comes with a new found familiarity. It's a fun watch, quirks and all.

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  Three O'Clock High 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Apr 2023

  As a huge fan and student of the teen high school movie genre, I know how campy some of them can be. I honestly didn't expect much more from Three O'Clock High than some adequate '80s aesthetics. It didn't take long, however, to realize that this film was truly something special.

  I could go on and on about the unforgettable characters both great and small who each manage to steal their respective scenes, the unrivaled articulation of tone and atmosphere…