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The Menu (2022)

There is some irony inherent in writing and reading a review of a film like The Menu.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Guiellermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio does a bunch of little- to medium-sized things wrong, but none of them end up mattering very much because it is such a fundamentally good movie.

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Strange World (2022)

To say the 61st feature created by Walt Disney Animation Studios came and went with little fanfare would be the understatement of 2022.

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Romancing the Stone (1984)

Romancing the Stone’s biggest problem is that its opening is too good.

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

So often, you hear great filmmakers talk about their love of film in spiritual terms.

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Sam & Kate (2022)

You may as well call it Nepo Baby: The Movie.

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Get Him to the Greek (2010)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is one of my favorite movies and has been from the moment I first saw it in theaters as a sophomore in college.

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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)

Damien Chazelle is not yet 40 years old, but is one of the most exciting American filmmakers working today.

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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

In one of the first scenes of Three Thousand Years of Longing, narratologist and protagonist Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) describes the lost art of storytelling.

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She Said (2022)

She Said is an “eat your veggies” movie.