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Shanghai Noon 2000
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Anyone with any appreciation for comedy, choreography, cowboys and kung-fu should watch this film. It's a buddy film for all buddies.
Jackie Chan is operating at his usual excellence, offering a charming performance as the bumbling stranger in a strange land. His stunts and fights are executed excellently, to no one's surprise and anyone's amazement.
Owen Wilson might be the crown jewel of this movie. His lines range from cunningly funny to succinctly wholesome. One of his last…
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Ad Astra 2019
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Ad Astra is a most worthy successor of the space-odyssey genre.
Visually it is impeccable, as colorful and baroque as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner 2049. Its slow march warrants every minute of screen time.
Spicing up these visuals is a solid (albeit, less memorable) score and the occasional, sweet baritone narration by Brad Pitt, whose performance is as complex as the emotionally-stunted character he embodies.
Tommy Lee Jones also delivers a paragon performance, his delivery…
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