I’ll start by admitting that I have never been a particularly big fan of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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Alice (Něco z Alenky) (1988)
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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.
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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.