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Bears – Disneynature (2014)

The first few minutes of Bears, created by nature documentary powerhouse Disneynature, dangle a threat in front of viewers.

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William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)

After the success of Strictly Ballroom, Baz Luhrmann was a rising star in Hollywood

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Spider-Man 2 (2004)

I might be biased because it came out a few days after my 16th birthday, but Spider-Man 2 is perhaps my favorite popcorn movie of the 21st-century

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Barbie: Fairytopia (2005)

I can’t believe I’m doing this. Not just reviewing a Barbie fairy movie, but singing its praises.

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Madeline & Cooper (2018)

When Cooper Raiff’s debut feature-length film, Shithouse, won the Jury Prize at the pandemic-truncated SXSW festival in March 2020, it represented the kind of meteoric rise to stardom that young filmmakers dream of.

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The Bad Guys (2022)

Over the past ten years, major American animation studios (mostly excluding Walt Disney Animation Studios) have finally realized that the path forward to improving their visual language was not enhancing the photorealism of their animation.

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Apollo 13 (1995)

Space is cool.

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The Lorax (2012)

It’s not really possible to make a proper anti-capitalist film that’s also a summer tentpole created by Illumination Entertainment

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Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Baz Luhrmann — born Mark Anthony Luhrmann; given the nickname “Baz” when his high school chums noticed his resemblance to the British TV puppet fox Basil Brush — grew up in a tiny Australian town called Herons Creek.

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Jurassic Park (1993)

I’m going to open this review discussing some of the flaws of Jurassic Park — sorry, 17-year-old me; Jurassic Park does indeed have flaws