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  Creed 2015

  ★★★★½ Added

  Right from the get-go, Creed has a lot to live up to. Rocky defined what a sports film had the ability to do when it was released in 1976. Rocky crafted a sincere underdog story that would spawn six sequels and would become one of the most beloved sports films ever made. Where Creed manages to excel is by employing a few similar thematic and story devices to construct a unique film that can stand up next a movie like…

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  Moonlight 2016

  ★★★★★ Added

  Moonlight is a fascinating look into the complexities of a man struggling with sexual identity and the social repercussions of this. It is a beautifully made film with a story that is often kept in the dark. Each of the three periods of the story is told in an intimate and unique way to show how Chiron copes with the struggles of his life, whether that be his sexuality, his drug addicted mother, his bullying, or his lack of a…

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  Sully 2016

  ★★½ Added

  Sully was fairly straightforward biopic. Tom Hanks does a serviceable job portraying Sully, but nothing too noteworthy. The sequence of the plane landing in the Hudson is done extremely well and is some of the best directorial work from Eastwood in a long time. There isn't too much to say about Sully, it was an enjoyable experience but not one that stuck with me much after the film was over.

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  Sicario 2015

  ★★★★ Added

  This was my second time seeing Sicario and while the film is mostly an enjoyable experience, I still found it hard to keep up with the plot. A lot of the decisions that characters made didn't make a lot of sense and I often felt myself wondering what exactly was going on. For example, I was struggling to follow how they discovered the location of the underground path beneath the border. This confusion does seem a bit warranted, however, because…

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