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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Jul 2023

  Beautiful animation or not, a movie that doesn't even try to tell a complete story will always feel lacking.

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  Shane 1953

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Apr 2021

  How many times have we seen the western trope of a stranger riding into town that comes to the aid of those in need? How many times have we seen hired guns and evil men riding for a fall? The backdrop for Shane isn't new and it wasn't new when the movie came out almost 70 years ago. It's freshness, however, comes from its deep-seeded sincerity. It's shown through a little boy's eyes, and he's never seen this before. There is a beauty in sincerity that westerns (and other genres) often overlook. Thank goodness, the filmmakers didn't for this one.

Popular reviews

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  Let's Make It Legal 1951

  ★★★½ Added

  Believe me, I'm aware that this film is nothing special. The tropes are familiar, the plot is tame, and the world sanitized to the point of fantasy, but it has a certain charm about it. The charm, as you can guess, come from a surprisingly A-list cast for a B movie. Claudette Colbert carries herself with her usual competence, while Robert Wagner shows flashes of the talent that would later lead to starring roles in television, and a young Marilyn…

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  The Quiet American 1958

  ★½ Watched 24 Feb 2019

  I love a slight case of whitewashed propaganda, don't you?

  Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave make for inch-perfect casting when you look at the novel. Too bad the powers that be took all the sting out of the story (and cast a white woman as the Vietnamese leading lady). Alas, I am expecting too much from a midcentury film about American involvement in Vietnam.