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  • Baby Driver
  • Volver
  • The Menu
  • In Bruges

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  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    ★★½

  • Better Man

    ★★★½

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★½

  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

    ★★★½

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  • Tortilla Soup

    Tortilla Soup

    ★★½

    In the movie "Twins", Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito star as brothers who were genetically modified at birth. Schwarzenegger's character received all the good genes, resulting in a perfectly engineered masterpiece of muscle, looks, and genius while the leftover genes went to DeVito's character. Same fundamental source material but vastly different products.

    And so it is with Tortilla Soup. Having first watched "Eat Drink Man Woman", this film came off seeming like the less bright of two siblings. It was…

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    ★★★½

    Terrible, terrible, terrible pacing, and maybe a little too much fan-service. The film can't decide whether to take itself seriously or not, and much of the humor falls flat - especially in the front half of the film. That being said, for me, what was good about the movie outweighed what was bad. After the final few scenes (The final 15 or so minutes are essentially a celebration of the last 40 years of Star Wars films), I had forgotten…