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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Temple of Doom is the fever dream iteration of Indiana Jones, every scene and detail and character turned up to a nightmarish 11.

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LEGO Frozen Northern Lights (2016)

Out of all of the stupid, horrible Frozen spinoff shorts… this might be the most tolerable!

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Alice (Něco z Alenky) (1988)

I’ll start by admitting that I have never been a particularly big fan of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

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High School Musical (2006)

It may very well be the nostalgia speaking.

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The Thirteenth Year (1999)

This Disney Channel Original Movie takes a very intriguing premise — boy begins transforming to merman on his thirteenth birthday and tries to hide it from the world; very clearly a metaphor for coming out as gay in 1999 — and makes it so damn boring.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

There are maybe fifty different places you could start when talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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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.