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  That Thing You Do! 1996

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  The scene where they hear their song on the radio for the first time and all converge on Patterson's store may be the single best moment of pure joy captured on film.

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  Juror #2 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Very '90s legal thriller, which I dug, but I hope I'm not the only person who immediately thought, when Cedric Yarbrough was talking about how drug dealers destroy their own communities, "...but Black Dynamite, I sell drugs in the community"

Popular reviews

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  CODA 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2022

  I jokingly told my friend this was called Sound of Newsies by the Sea, but it really did weave together these disparate storylines into a fantastic story.

  And if you didn’t lose it even a little during the audition, you have a heart of stone. I was in tears.

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  Cats 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Jan 2020

  I have never, in the 2,169 films that I have marked as watched on this site, actually written a review, but I feel compelled to preemptively defend my five star review of Cats.

  This is in no way a *good* movie, but I do think it might be a *great* one. It is absolutely going to become a midnight-movie classic on par with Showgirls. It is so perfectly, wonderfully insane.

  It should be noted that I saw this in a…

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