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Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)

Mickey’s Christmas Carol is neck and neck with The Muppet Christmas Carol as the ideal adaptation to introduce the iconic story to a child.

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The Blair Witch Project (1999)

I’ve now see Blair Witch Project four times, which puts it in pretty elite territory.

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Armageddon Time (2022)

Whereas most nostalgia-tinted, autobiographical coming-of-age films are deeply sentimental, Armageddon Time is bleak, bordering on nihilistic.

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TÁR (Tar) (2022)

In the episode of Game of Thrones entitled “The North Remembers,” the characters Littlefinger and Cersei Lannister argue about the nature of power.

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Following up The Dark Knight is no easy task, especially when, by most accounts, Christopher Nolan had to be talked into making a third Batman movie.

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Triangle of Sadness (2022)

The audacity of that runtime.

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Conjuring (1896)

The lack of preservation of early films is a bewildering and heartbreaking truth of movie history.

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

If I told you that I was going to make a movie set in the early 20th century in which a large boat hits an iceberg and sinks, you’d say, “oh, like Titanic?”

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Airplane! (1980)

I’m not sure what’s most incredible about Airplane.

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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is one piece of the holiday trifecta