Here we have two half-hour literary adaptations of beloved works, both charming and well-animated and lively, but with almost no reason to be packaged together.
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Despite suffering through the nightmarishly bad Belle’s Magical World the previous day, my daughters were up for still more Beauty and the Beast content last night, so we streamed The Enchanted Christmas.
My girls wanted to see more Beauty and the Beast after we enjoyed the animated classic last week. So I pulled this up on Disney+ (not realizing the Christmas one is the first proper midquel).
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
I know a lot of the value of this movie is the influence it brought on indie films:
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Midsommar (2019)
Midsommar features an extremely striking use of light and color. It’s the first horror movie I’ve seen where the absence of darkness is part of the terror.
A micro-budget, DTV fantasy movie riding in the wake of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, yet not really inspired by either.
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing pops with life and energy and color from the first frame and never relents.
Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorite movies, quite obviously a masterpiece.
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Brick (2006)
Brick is one of my favorite movies I’ve seen in months.
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Trolls World Tour (2020)
The sheer anarchy of this film is unbelievable.