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  Inside Out 2 2024

  ★★½ Added

  More like ‘Inside Out Boo’ amiright? 

  Nah but seriously, while I may not have been the original Inside Out’s greatest fan or anything, the first did have something that its sequel does not: a sense of urgency.

  This film feels like the plot of a hypothetical Inside Out tv series episode stretched to feature length. This week kids were learning about anxiety. And it just doesn’t work. Joy went through her arc already, learning that one needs to express all…

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★½ Added

  A fairly bog standard music bio-pic, but with enough creative camera work, powerful performances, and a unique central hook to bring it a few points above the rest. Of the two Oscar-nominated music bio-pics I have seen this year, Better Man is the clear superior over A Complete Unknown. And of the two Oscar-nominated CGI Ape movies I have seen this year, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes still comes out on top.

  7/10

  I couldn't pick Robbie Williams out of a lineup before I saw this movie, and I still couldn't.

Popular reviews

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  Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare 2008

  ★ Added

  I watched this movie when I was really young. I don't remember much about it, except that my rabbit had died, and I found out while watching this film.

  I'd like to say that it hasn't effected my score for the film, but it probably didn't help.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★ Added

  More like ‘A Complete Waste of Time.’ 

  Seriously, imagine making a movie where the central theme is that you should take risks and express yourself in unique and new ways, and having the movie be the most paint by number music biopic ever made. The dissonance is astounding.

  Film should have been from Joan’s pov, least of all because then I wouldn’t have to listen to Chalamate’s-SNL-impression-sounding-ass performance for the majority of the runtime. 

  4/10

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