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Review: White Noise
By Christian DiMartino Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is a movie I thoroughly enjoyed, and I’m well aware that you may not. It’s certainly an acquired taste- from beginning to end, Baumbach takes you on a very strange, disorienting journey that I truly couldn’t predict, and it poses many questions and doesn’t present many answers. It’s…
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The Throwbacks: “Boogie Nights” 25 Years Later
By Christian DiMartino I have sung the praises of Paul Thomas Anderson a plethora of times, both on this site and in general. Whether it be Magnolia, or something a little more polarizing as Punch Drunk Love, or something as recent as Licorice Pizza, he’s a truly original and creative artist who makes movies that…
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Review: Space Jam: A New Legacy
Ready Player .01 Space Jam: A New Legacy is a stupefyingly dumb family comedy that is more of a self-congratulatory circle-jerk for Warner Bros. studios than a sequel to Space Jam. Look, I’m all on-board with a movie referencing movies but… you have to do something else with the reference besides being a reference. If…
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Review: No Sudden Move
Remember when Steven Soderbergh announced he was retiring? Doesn’t that feel like eons ago? Back in 2013, he announced that Side Effects (which, don’t judge, is probably my favorite of his movies) was to be his last theatrical release because he was fed up with the business. Yet like Jack Twist once said to Ennis…
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Review: Captain America: Civil War
By Christian DiMartino I’ve like pretty much all of the films from Marvel’s MCU (is that right? Not sure). I normally find myself being too generous to them most of the time, and I don’t even care. I may be being too generous once again to the latest entry, Captain America: Civil War, but I’ll be…