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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2024

  The reception of this film echoes what happened with The Last Jedi. A filmmaker dared to try something different and to challenge expectations we have for a franchise and its characters, and everyone hates it. Not everything in this movie works, but whatever success this film has comes from a willingness to critique Joker as character and symbol, and to force us to reflect on what Joker means and should mean to us. It’s not the same as the first…

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  Ticket to Paradise 2022

  ★★★ Watched 21 Oct 2022

  Best viewed with a theater full of oldster couples out on date night.

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  The Oh in Ohio 2006

  ★ Watched 19 Mar 2021

  If you're looking for evidence of the alternate career path that Paul Rudd luckily escaped to eventually become a beloved Avenger, this movie is that -- see especially the scene in which Rudd, playing a high school biology teacher, has an affair with one of his students before telling her the true secret to having a real female orgasm. If you're looking for a film that doubles down on many of the most toxic tropes of romance, sexuality, and gender,…

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2021

  Daniel Craig's final go-round as Bond has its flaws. Rami Malek's main villain makes some truly inexplicable decisions in the final act; M oversees the off-the-books development of a bio weapon that falls in to the wrong hands, and his only punishment is a stern talking-to from Bond. But while No Time to Die is not a perfect film, it is a five-star film. It is, without question, the clearest distillation of Craig's take on the character as well as…

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