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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Delightful! All the fun of Oceans 11 (and maybe a few of the old tropes, but artfully updated). Lovely soundtracking and beautiful visuals throughout. Give Soderbergh a run at the next James Bond franchise — and let him cast Fassbender as Bond PLEASE!

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2025

  Every theatre kid is obliged to say this in their review: “the movie is not as good as when I saw it…” (in this case, 2x touring cast at the Fox in Atlanta and once in London)

  It’s true, movie musicals will never match the magic of live theatre. Practical magic on the stage still carries a weight that GFX has rendered commonplace and mundane from familiarity.

  Still, I’m grateful that Cynthia Erivo was given this global platform, gem of…

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2024 1

  Great score, beautifully shot, excellent acting and writing. Highly recommend

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  Encanto 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Jan 2022

  Thoroughly charming! My standard critique of today’s Disney animated features is a lack of staying power from the songs (Encanto does better than most, but didn’t crack the code the way Frozen did with “Let It Go”). Still, the story feels fresh — departing from classic fairytale dynamics by allowing the family’s unresolved tension to be the true antagonist— and is fleshed out by beautiful visuals and top-notch voice acting.

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