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Robot (Enthiran) (2010)

Robot (aka Enthiran) is a three-hour Kollywood sci-fi sitcom action musical about AI robots gaining sentience and falling in love with humans.

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Robot 2.0 (2018)

Shankar’s Robot provided a sprawling, goofy sci-fi epic without much of a coherent theme

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Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump is one of the most divisive movies you’ll encounter, assuming your reading list includes critics across the political and philosophical spectrum.

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Upside-Down Magic (2020)

The Upside-Down Magic book is about a group of kids whose magic doesn’t work quite the same way as the kids around them, but whose institutions recognize their worth.

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Knocked Up (2007)

Knocked Up feels, in some ways, like the grown up version of Freaks and Geeks: Two mismatched worlds colliding and, after much hilarious dust-up, bringing out the best in each other.

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Lost in Translation (2003)

Everything about Lost in Translation is designed to make Tokyo feel like an alien world

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My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Surely you are familiar with the Howard Hawks’s authoritative definition: ““A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.”

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A Few Good Men (1992)

There’s a lot that’s good in this film, but let’s start with the bad

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Turning Red (2022)

The premise of Turning Red — thirteen-year-old Mei Lee transforming into a red panda whenever she gets agitated — is very clearly metaphoric.

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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

The Darjeeling Limited has a reputation as a minor Wes Anderson work