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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Sometimes my critical faculties are short-circuited and I can only gush. Here goes.

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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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Aladdin (1992)

There’s an interesting case to be made that Aladdin is the most influential non-CGI animated picture of the last 50 years.

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Rudy (1993)

I grew up in a Notre Dame household.

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The Usual Suspects (1996)

Has there ever been a movie made more interesting by its final five minutes than The Usual Suspects?

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Toy Story (1995)

All three of the movies in the “Andy Trilogy” (as I’ve come to call it) are outright masterpieces, but none of them are perfect, and all of them are flawed in different ways.

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Toy Story 2 (1999)

One of my foundational cinematic beliefs that all three movies in the “Andy Trilogy” are 5-star, Tour De Good masterpieces.

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WALL·E (2008)

I’ve always had a hard time figuring out just where to place WALL·E in the Pixar pantheon for a couple reasons, the biggest of which is that WALL·E is a rare masterpiece that gets steadily worse across its runtime. The more the movie focuses on the fat humans and environmentalism parable, the more it feels like a run-of-the-mill good movie; and the less it feels like a generationally profound piece of cinema.