In my review of The Royal Hotel, I posited that the phrase “well-observed” is a backhanded compliment that indicates a film is good but somewhat pointless.
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Good One (2024)
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My Old Ass (2024)
My Old Ass has a premise that is evocative and mystical until you think about it for ten seconds.
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Moana 2 (2024)
The production history of Moana 2 is very instructive of the resulting film.
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Here (2024)
In the decade following his extended, largely unsuccessful, mo-cap experiment, Robert Zemeckis looked inward.
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Red Rooms (2023)
The fans of the popular podcast My Favorite Murder call themselves “murderinos.”
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Saturday Night (2024)
I really wanted Saturday Night to work.
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Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
The extent to which Babe: Pig in the City hocks a loogie in the face of the original Babe is a very well-documented legend of modern filmmaking.
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Babe (1995)
Babe is an wonderful film
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Time Cut (2024)
Antz and A Bug’s Life.
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Strike (1925)
Soviet montage cinema is one of the most idiosyncratic movements in movie history, and also one of the most influential.