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A Complete Unknown 2024
If the goal of A Complete Unknown was to make me want to listen to more of Bob Dylan, it succeeded. If it wanted to do anything more than that, it unfortunately has to be called a resounding failure.
I don't mind taking artistic license in service of telling a better story (although it's sad that a big name draw has to be utilized in order to tell that story), but here there just isn't much of a story to…
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La La Land 2016
Had sky high expectations that I spent the weeks leading up to seeing it trying to lower. I should preface this by saying that I'm not a big fan of musicals in general. La La Land is extremely well-made in almost every aspect: the direction is great, the performances are really good (although it wouldn't bother me if none of the leads won an oscar), it is beautiful to look at and anyone who complains about the spectacularity of the…
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Ready Player One 2018
Ready Player One is a 12 year-old’s idealistic dream version of “gamer culture”. It’s the kind of film where you unconsciously check-out emotionally 30 minutes into it because you realize that it’s not going to surprise you or have anything interesting to say. You do this in order to not feel intellectually violated, so that you can come out of the movie and tell yourself that it wasn’t that bad, that it was a forgettable, enjoyable action-adventure. But that would…
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