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Harry Potter and the Infinite Sadness
Or, why watching movies about teenage wizards depresses the hell out of me.
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Michael Nordine
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Your Lucky Day Is a Fittingly Tragic Swan Song for Angus Cloud
The crime thriller verges on greatness, as does its gone-too-soon star
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Talk to the Hand
I can take you to the best horror movie in years
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Killers of the Flower Moon Belongs to Lily Gladstone
Or it should, anyway.
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Jordan Peele’s Bad Miracle
Nope is his most ambitious film yet, but also his most disjointed
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This Is Not the Point of Babette
No one said adapting great books is easy.
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I Assure You, It's Terrible
Look on Clerks III, ye Mighty, and despair
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The Best Movies of 2023
Putting together a best-of list can be difficult in one of two ways: either you have too few movies worthy of inclusion or you have too many.
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The Best Movies of 2022
2022 was the year I went back to the old me, by which I mean watching even more movies than I usually do — just shy of 400 as of this writing, 179 of…
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Love the One You're With
Kinds of Kindness is the right kind of weird
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Flash in the Pan
When a bad movie leads you to a good one
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Ridley Scott's Napoleon Complex
The epic biopic is good enough to make you wish it were great
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