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Marmaduke (2022)

When I started watching Marmaduke, I thought it was one of those Ratatoing-type cheap knockoffs.

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Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)

Minions 2, officially Minions: The Rise of Gru, is not truly a Minions movie the way the 2015 original was.

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Metal Lords (2022)

Maybe I’m too streaming TV-brained, but something about Metal Lords’ structure just feels wrong.

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X (2022)

X feels like a reaction to the horror movie trend of having the spooky stuff be an artful metaphor for Serious Issues

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Moonshot (2022)

Between this and Look Both Ways, 2022 has been an excellent year for Riverdale alums to appear in high concept romantic comedies.

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Look Both Ways (2022)

I love it when a good high concept gets transplanted to a teen or young adult movie.

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Pinocchio (2022)

It’s trash.

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Sharp Stick (2022)

It has been ten years since Lena Dunham announced “I think I may be the voice of my generation… or at least a voice of a generation”

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Honor Society (2022)

It is pretty much impossible to talk about Honor Society without talking about how it resolves

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Fall (2022)

Fall is an example of a movie doing one central thing very well such that not much else about the movie matters so long as the movie is focused on that one thing.