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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) – Capsule Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 01/14/2023
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Update: I published a full-length review of this here:

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Puss in Boots 2 is:

The best movie in the Shrek franchise.
The best Dreamworks movie since at least How to Train Your Dragon 2, maybe 1.
The best mainstream American animated movie since at least Spider-Verse, and possibly as far back as the early 2010s.
A vessel for the best animated villain in so long I can’t even think of the last one better than this — you might have to go to the Disney Renaissance.
And, in all seriousness, maybe the best movie of 2022.

La La Land (2016) – 2022 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 01/03/2022
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Note: I wrote a new La La Land review as part of my Damien Chazelle retrospective. You can read it here.

I’m seriously bummed I didn’t see this one on the big screen.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) – 2021 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 12/10/2021
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Read the full review here.

This is the rare childhood favorite that just gets better and better as I get older.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) – 2021 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 12/10/2021
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It’s great for all the reasons you remember: Seuss’s verses are wonderful and whimsical; Jones’ animation is colorful and playful (the faces!); Karloff is perfect as the narrator and Grinch; Ravenscroft’s baritone insults are a hoot; and the warm holiday ending is a great payoff on a fun reverse-Santa story.

I’ll probably be watching this every winter for the rest of my life.

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) – 2021 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 12/03/2021
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Mickey’s Christmas Carol makes an excellent way to introduce younger kids to the Christmas Carol story, but it’s honestly appealing to all ages.

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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) – 2021 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 10/29/2021
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Oct 2022 update: I wrote an expanded review of this, which you’ll find here.

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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018) – 2021 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 10/29/2021
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(Note: There’s an updated and expanded review for this film. Read it here.)

Zombies (stylized Z-O-M-B-I-E-S like a pep cheer) is an utterly bizarre, big-budget (for TV) romantic musical about humans and zombies co-mingling, set in a garish, pastel-colored parody of high school.

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Over the Garden Wall (2014) – 2021 Review

Post author By Dan Stalcup
Post date 10/24/2021
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Edit: I wrote an expanded review for this following my 2022 rewatch.

Quick overview for the uninitiated (like I was last year): A bunch of interconnected shorts adding up to feature length telling the story of brothers Wirt and Greg wandering some sort of fantastical woods in late autumn.