I don’t have too much experience with the modern-retro Mickey Mouse shorts from the late 2010s, so it was enlightening to see it in full bloom for a 20 minute special.
Author: Dan Stalcup
For how cheap and rushed it should feel, given that it’s a 50-minute special advertising a theme park attraction, Muppets Haunted Mansion is surprisingly well-realized.
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GoodFellas (1990)
I think the reason that Goodfellas is (probably) my favorite gangster movie is because it does the best job of depicting the extreme bundle of paradoxes that the gangster arc is all about:
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Scream 4 (2011)
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The DUFF (2015)
I subscribe to the theory that much of a romantic comedy’s ultimate success or failure comes down to the cast even more than the script.
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Scream 3 (2000)
The Scream series hits its inevitable “diminishing returns” phase in its third installment, an obvious step down from the first two.
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Toy Story (1995)
All three of the movies in the “Andy Trilogy” (as I’ve come to call it) are outright masterpieces, but none of them are perfect, and all of them are flawed in different ways.
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Dumbo (1941)
In many ways, Dumbo feels like it should have been the first Disney animated feature.
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Scream 2 (1997)
Everything about Scream 2 indicates a rush sequel job to the massive success of Scream, but it works, almost miraculously.
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Scream (1996)
It’s 2021, so the “slasher, but meta” does not feel nearly as fresh and as clever as I’m sure it might have 25 years ago