Part of me wants to be contrarian and rain on all the love this movie gets.
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The passage of time is funny.
The consensus among my peers in recent years is that To Kill a Mockingbird is Baby’s First Anti-Racism Story with a heavy dollop of white saviorism.
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Ocean’s Eleven (2004)
I’d never argue it’s one of the best, but Ocean’s Eleven is undoubtedly one of the coolest movies I’ve ever seen:
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Return of the Jedi (1983)
There are few movies with which I have a more mixed reaction than Return of the Jedi.
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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
It’s an obvious point, but worth repeating: With so many bad franchise sequels in film history, Empire Strikes Back is kind of a miracle.
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Star Wars (1977)
More than forty years later, Star Wars still puts most popcorn cinema since to shame.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.
It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:
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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.