Ad Astra is one of the most beautifully shot and produced science fiction films of the 21st century.
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Ad Astra (2019)
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Beach Party (1963)
When Brian Wilson died last week, a couple of film fans I know turned to Love & Mercy, the biopic about the legendary musician.
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Mystery Team (2009)
I am exactly the demographic and disposition that Derrick Comedy, the late 2000s Internet sketch comedy group, was built for.
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An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
There are few movies in this universe I cherish more than A Goofy Movie, so it would be easy to see how I could come into An Extremely Goofy Movie on one of two poles
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Enchanted (2007)
I am not well-read on the dramatic theory of romantic comedy, but one of my beliefs as a movie lover is that the genre works best when it culminates in not just the union of two partners, but the marriage of two ideologically opposed worldviews that, against all odds, find compromise or even synthesis.
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Happy Feet (2006)
George Miller is either mad or a genius — or very likely both.
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The Substance (2024)
Good Lord. What a film.
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Inherit the Wind (1960)
This July, we will mark a century since the Scopes Trial of 1925, aka “The Monkey Trial.”
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Ghost Dad (1990)
It’s not exactly news that watching a Bill Cosby movie in 2025 is an uneasy proposition.
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Paper Moon (1973)
There’s a scene set at a carnival about halfway through Paper Moon when nine-year-old Addie Loggins (Tatum O’Neal) gets a portrait taken by herself at a carnival