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A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)

If you’re a franchise the pumps out thematic specials, eventually you will get to A Christmas Carol.

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)

Mickey’s Christmas Carol is neck and neck with The Muppet Christmas Carol as the ideal adaptation to introduce the iconic story to a child.

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The Blair Witch Project (1999)

I’ve now see Blair Witch Project four times, which puts it in pretty elite territory.

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Armageddon Time (2022)

Whereas most nostalgia-tinted, autobiographical coming-of-age films are deeply sentimental, Armageddon Time is bleak, bordering on nihilistic.

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Barbie in ‘A Christmas Carol’ (2008)

One of the only Christmas Carol reinventions that has really worked for me. The sense of terror is gone, and the CGI is as ugly as any of the Barbie movies (very), but there’s a lot of thought and heart into this telling that transforms Scrooge (i.e. Eden Starling) into a vain theater star.

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TÁR (Tar) (2022)

In the episode of Game of Thrones entitled “The North Remembers,” the characters Littlefinger and Cersei Lannister argue about the nature of power.

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Following up The Dark Knight is no easy task, especially when, by most accounts, Christopher Nolan had to be talked into making a third Batman movie.

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Triangle of Sadness (2022)

The audacity of that runtime.

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Conjuring (1896)

The lack of preservation of early films is a bewildering and heartbreaking truth of movie history.

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

If I told you that I was going to make a movie set in the early 20th century in which a large boat hits an iceberg and sinks, you’d say, “oh, like Titanic?”