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Mickey 17 2025
Technically well-done, but with its many familiar ideas and characters it feels like a rehash of several other things (Okja, Snowpiercer, plus Hunger Games and other dystopian sci-fi). Something this broad and obvious is never going to feel satirically sharp, but it's also not as funny as it thinks it is. Just an odd kind of tone, not displeasing, but ultimately kind of dull and forgettable. Also, not to be that guy pointing out unimportant discrepancies, but I kept waiting…
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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
Just a wild, grungy, hoot of a time. I wish I'd seen it in a theater with a big audience, because the ending, OMG!
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Listening to Kenny G 2021
If you think you hate Kenny G...
This will not change your mind! Director Penny Lane has pulled off a neat trick here and created a documentary to serve both fans of Kenny G and his detractors.
The doc starts by introducing a number of jazz historians and professors, who you assume are there to talk about how Kenny G's music is not only "not jazz" but is milquetoast, sterile, corporatized, and uninformed by jazz history. But then she switches…
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Amerikatsi 2022
A shallow but overlong "return to roots" story that glosses over anything too troubling about Armenian genocide or soviet oppression in favor of some feel-good messaging about brotherhood and resiliency.
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