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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023)

As an adaptation of the universally-known and -loved novel from 1970, it is what you would expect: nostalgic and rosy and clearly a piece of “warm-hug cinema.” It’s more than that, though.

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Renfield (2023)

The pitch is clear just from the top billing

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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)

Palm Trees and Power Lines is a movie that succeeds in what it sets out to do, but that doesn’t mean I enjoyed it.

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Air (2023)

2023 is apparently the year for “biz-pics,” biopics that chronicle the rise of various corporate empires.

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Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the type of movie that I imagined and hoped we would get on the regular after Avengers popped at the box office in 2012.

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Ghosted (2023)

Film Twitter has been abuzz recently over speculation about what films generated completely by artificial intelligence might someday look like.

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65 (2023)

All movie fans are allowed — even expected — to have some “so dumb but I love it” pet favorites.

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Tetris (2023)

You’ve played Tetris.

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We Have a Ghost (2023)

I really enjoyed all three of Christopher Landon’s previous movies for the way they executed high concept horror-comedy.

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Every one of my complaints about The Super Mario Bros. Movie can be countered with “Well, it’s the Mario movie as made by Illumination.