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The Best Movies of 2021 (a tad late, I know)
By Christian DiMartino Typically when I make a 10 best list for movies, I like to wait until I’ve caught up with everything I deem necessary. In other words, I await the Oscar nominations, and if there is a major nomination that I have missed, I will wait until I’ve caught up with it. I…
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A Trip Back To: A Star is Born (2018)
So after what feels like 6 months of constant, big movies, it seems as if theatres are going to experience a drought for a few weeks. Basically, if I don’t know what a movie is, it probably isn’t worth my time. What comes out this weekend? Something called Redeeming Love, and something called The King’s…
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Review: Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson has eight Academy Award nominations. Despite making Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Phantom Thread, he has yet to nab one. He just might win one though for his latest movie, Licorice Pizza, which we all (well, I can chime in now) adore. To this,…
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Review: Nightmare Alley
Two time Academy Award winner Guillermo Del Toro returns to the big screen with Nightmare Alley, his first film since his Best Picture winning The Shape of Water back in 2017. Like that film, Nightmare Alley is a breathtakingly gorgeous visual feast across the board. Also like that film, I went into it with my…
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A Trip Back To: Aloha (2015)
There is nothing worse than going into a movie with extremely high expectations, and leaving extremely disappointed. Well, maybe being burned alive is worse, but I wouldn’t know anything about that. Still, over the years, I’ve gone into movies with high hopes, just to have those dreams horribly crushed. Cameron Crowe’s Aloha was such a…
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“I Sometimes Wish I’d Never Been Born at All!”: Final Oscar Predictions and Preferences
By Christian DiMartino The Oscars are on Sunday, and normally I’d be all in. But this time, the end can’t come any sooner. I am sick to death of griping about this fairly weak list of Best Picture nominees and all of the other mistakes that that have been made. And bad mistakes… they’ve made…
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Review: Burnt
By Christian DiMartino I, like most of you, skipped out on Burnt when it was released back in October. It had my interest, but yet once the negativity started pouring in, my interest left. But now, I have seen it. How is it? Meh. Bradley Cooper plays a chef named Adam Jones, an angry Gordon Ramsey…
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Review: Joy
By Christian DiMartino Joy is a bit of a step back for David O. Russell, who has been on roll ever since The Fighter. That film, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle all made my Best Lists, and I assumed Joy was heading there as well. Well, turns out that lightning can’t strike four times, but I still think Joy is a good…
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