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Liberal Arts 2012
Oh nice, another movie where a 19 year-old manic-pixie Freshman (also virgin!) who loves Bach and Beethoven (but also Twilight) falls for a bookishly intelligent, 30-something white male, who also falls for her, but is too noble to sleep with her.
There's even a scene about Infinite Jest.
It gets a second star because it's saved at the end by a post-coital monologue by Allison Janney...
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Unhinged 2020
A 300 lb Russell Crowe, sounding like Walter from The Big Lebowski, and acting all Rutger Hauer from The Hitcher. Which, on it's face, isn't horrible as a premise, but that premise is kind of spoiled by voice over commentary of news anchors grasping at straws by preaching about everything that might tangentially be relevant: wealth inequality, people taking selfies and living on their phone, people just generally not getting along, as if to justify Crowe's white male rage at…
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall 2017
Holden Caufield turns into David Foster Wallace turns into Alexander Supertramp turns into a freight-train hopping Joe Gould hobo;
a dozen useless sub-plots that step on each others toes:
the private eye;
the vague, head-trauma/schizophrenia of seeing people from the past as ghosts;
the bully/jock-turned-victim;
the secret buried McGuffin;
the fight against censorship;
the impact of the author's words causing multiple suicides;
the tragic first love;
the love affair with the agent's daughter;
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