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I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

If you’ve been hanging around film and TV forums the past fifteen years, you’ve probably heard the story of Cry Baby Lane.

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Good One (2024)

In my review of The Royal Hotel, I posited that the phrase “well-observed” is a backhanded compliment that indicates a film is good but somewhat pointless.

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My Old Ass (2024)

My Old Ass has a premise that is evocative and mystical until you think about it for ten seconds.

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Moana 2 (2024)

The production history of Moana 2 is very instructive of the resulting film.

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Here (2024)

In the decade following his extended, largely unsuccessful, mo-cap experiment, Robert Zemeckis looked inward.

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Time Cut (2024)

Antz and A Bug’s Life.

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His Three Daughters (2024)

You must be patient with His Three Daughters.

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The Wild Robot (2024)

I must start this review the way I do nearly every newly released animated film

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Didi (2024)

We have now reached the era where the up-and-coming filmmakers are younger than me, and so the autobiographical coming-of-age period pieces take place later than my own experience.

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Rebel Ridge (2024)

Would you look at that — another Netflix release that would have played great as a wide release on the big screen!