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  • Arrival
  • The Lion King
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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  • Snow White

    ★★★

  • Only Yesterday

    ★★★★

  • Robot Dreams

    ★★★

  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

    ★★★½

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  • Snow White

    Snow White

    ★★★

    I wish the Snow White adaptations could find a way to do the Evil Queen justice. I think there is true potential to flesh out a character that is threatening and maniacal based off of her obsession with being the fairest of them all. Not saying to make her sympathetic, but to understand her more. Or to at least give her a chance to have a deeper impact on the story.
    My feelings on the Evil Queen stem from the…

  • Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    ★★★★

    So nice to see the studio make a film about how someone reflects on their childhood in their twenties.

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  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

    Every color you could ever think of is in full display in creating this whimsical, lush, and at times dangerous forest in The Wild Robot. Having such a flexible animation style allows the setting to give such grandness to this simple film. The parenthood elements were it's strongest aspects narratively and it's refreshing dark humor allowed the script to never feel dull.
    The main issues I have is how in your face the "let's all be friends" messaging was and…

  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

    Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

    ★★★

    Who is the main character? Why is everyone in this movie so stale? Why does the story legitimately not feel relevant until 40 minutes in? Why Jar Jar? How did George think that Anakin creating C-3P0 was a good idea? How did he think that the Gungans speaking whacked up English was a better idea than if they spoke an alien language with subtitles? How is there always a bigger fish?

    Even after all these questions, it somehow works as…