Between this and Look Both Ways, 2022 has been an excellent year for Riverdale alums to appear in high concept romantic comedies.
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Moonshot (2022)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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Look Both Ways (2022)
I love it when a good high concept gets transplanted to a teen or young adult movie.
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Pinocchio (1940)
Pinocchio is typically regarded as the most beautiful hand-drawn animated film in Hollywood history
The title is the best part of this special, unfortunately, but it still has a faint dusting of that golden age Peanuts special magic.
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Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown (1980)
Like most mid-era Peanuts specials, this one is not bad so much as inessential. The story follows Snoopy chasing down a sexy poodle and joining the circus. There’s more of a dark tone here than some other Peanuts specials, but not to an especially interesting effect.
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Pinocchio (2022)
It’s trash.
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Fantasmagorie (1908)
Any claim at a “first” in cinema history is going to be filled with asterisks and provisos.
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Sharp Stick (2022)
It has been ten years since Lena Dunham announced “I think I may be the voice of my generation… or at least a voice of a generation”
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Honor Society (2022)
It is pretty much impossible to talk about Honor Society without talking about how it resolves
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Fall (2022)
Fall is an example of a movie doing one central thing very well such that not much else about the movie matters so long as the movie is focused on that one thing.