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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Terminator 2 bungles two narrative devices in its opening half hour, and it leaves me ever-so-slightly sour on the film for the rest of its runtime.

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Finding Nemo (2003)

Finding Nemo is one of my favorite movies and does a lot of things right, but there is one specific thing that I think it does better than any other movie in cinema history:

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Cars 3 (2017)

There’s an alternate universe where a version of Cars 3 not too different from its current form is an “Exceptionally Good” movie, an elegaic conclusion to a trilogy that used racing and talking cars to explore the ways we define our personal parameters of success in an increasingly fast-paced and polarized world.

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Pocahontas (1995)

It’s hard to think of a movie with more wasted potential: Disney at its peak Renaissance powers, following a string of more-or-less masterpieces, releasing a catastrophic misfire.

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Cars 2 (2011)

There’s one thing I unabashedly enjoy about Pixar’s worst film to date: The almost pornographic way it raises uncomfortable questions about the cosmology of the Cars world.

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Luca (2021)

I am smitten with Luca even though it’s a bit rough around the edges and takes some time to get going.

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Birth of the Solar System (2017)

They used to occasionally show us these kinds of documentaries in high school and college classes (probably when the teacher had a hangover).

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The Terminator (1984)

The massive popularity of its warmer sequel and the meme-ification of some of its most famous lines had me ill-prepared for just how much of a techno-nightmare this film is.

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The Hating Game (2021)

The Hating Game works when it’s just Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell verbally sparring with each other.

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Lamp Life (2020)

The best thing you can say about Lamp Life is that it has some of the world-class photorealism CGI deployed in Toy Story 4.