I can’t help but feel They Live, while solid and intermittently great, is a bit overrated thanks to the blunt effectiveness of its aggressive political satire.
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They Live (1988)
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In the late ‘70s, Isao Takahata was tapped to lead the TV adaptation of the 1908 Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Marmaduke (2022)
When I started watching Marmaduke, I thought it was one of those Ratatoing-type cheap knockoffs.
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Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Minions 2, officially Minions: The Rise of Gru, is not truly a Minions movie the way the 2015 original was.
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Metal Lords (2022)
Maybe I’m too streaming TV-brained, but something about Metal Lords’ structure just feels wrong.
X feels like a reaction to the horror movie trend of having the spooky stuff be an artful metaphor for Serious Issues
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Moonshot (2022)
Between this and Look Both Ways, 2022 has been an excellent year for Riverdale alums to appear in high concept romantic comedies.
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Look Both Ways (2022)
I love it when a good high concept gets transplanted to a teen or young adult movie.
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Pinocchio (1940)
Pinocchio is typically regarded as the most beautiful hand-drawn animated film in Hollywood history
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Pinocchio (2022)
It’s trash.