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2009 Top 100 – Original List
Overstuffed but riveting, this is a worthy sequel I like more now than ever. Exciting, tense, with both heart and transcendent visuals. There are stakes and consequences and themes. Just a great adventure.
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School of Rock (2003)
Don’t you be talkin bout my bowtie!
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Reviewed on The Goods: A Film Podcast
Funnier, stranger, and more beautiful than I remember. The astonishing Technicolor, all-time soundtrack, and world-class production are grounded by Judy Garland’s humane role as Dorothy (at age 17!)
A post-Wes Andersonian end-of-high school comedy that’s simultaneously charming and a bit dull, despite a lean sub-90 runtime. Cast is full of winners but led by a blank slate.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
In the the late 1910s and 1920s, a bunch of German filmmakers invented the tone and aesthetics of horror movies amidst postwar defeat drudgery in a movement called “German expressionism.”
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
The script and story are flimsy in comparison to the visuals, which are rousing. Epic action sequences and world-building, with some apocalyptic moments. Heavy Avatar: The Last Airbender vibes. Enjoyed but wanted more.
A bizarre documentary about pet cemeteries that manages to be both hilarious and perhaps the most probing look at the human condition that I’ve ever seen.