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Review of The Truman Show (1998)

By Jake C (820) on 16 Aug 2017

Prescient as a panoptic satire of our omnipresent technocracy, the deeper lesson of The Truman Show is not how the ideological fiction of reality…

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Review of To Be or Not to Be (1942)

By Jake C (820) on 16 Aug 2017

Of course, when Lubitsch's masterpiece was released mere months after the US entered WWII, it was a divisive critical and commercial failure…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Jake C (820) on 15 Aug 2017

One of the best reboots in recent memory, Tom Holland shines as a new Spider-Man for a new generation, with great humor, an interesting villain,…

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Review of American Graffiti (1973)

By Jake C (820) on 15 Aug 2017

Before he made 'Star Wars', George Lucas was in his prime with one of the best teen films ever made…

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Review of Donnie Darko (2001)

By Jake C (820) on 15 Aug 2017

Strange, remarkable, magnetic and transfixing…

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Review of Magnolia (1999)

By Jake C (820) on 15 Aug 2017

Darkly comic, sometimes depressing, and filled with stunning performances from an ensemble cast that shine, Paul Thomas Anderson directs with…

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Review of Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

By Jake C (820) on 14 Aug 2017

A work of art, a weird bizarre work of art that has a great sound track…

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Review of The Founder (2016)

By Jake C (820) on 13 Aug 2017

Held up by Keaton's golden performance, the film in effect has the taste of a McDonald's meal: You enjoy the juicier bits while ignoring the…

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Review of The Wizard (1989)

By Jake C (820) on 12 Aug 2017

That Super Mario Bros. 3 bit was the most badass part of the movie…

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Review of The Circle (2017)

By Jake C (820) on 06 Aug 2017

If you think our privacy is breached by our government. wait till you see this. Excellent movie with our home boy Tom from Concord, .ca…

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Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Jake C (820) on 04 Aug 2017

By the time the credits roll, if you don't have a greater appreciation of stock car racing, the movie has probably failed in presenting its…

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Review of The Andromeda Strain (1971)

By Jake C (820) on 04 Aug 2017

Riveting sci-fi for the first two acts, with unexpectedly jolting and dramatic camera work coming from Wise; but as the mystery of the alien…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Jake C (820) on 04 Aug 2017

On an Imaginary level, the film presents the overthrow and replacement of mankind by apes, a reversion to our primitive state and a reversal…

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Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

By Jake C (820) on 25 Jul 2017

While at times the movie is somewhat sloppy and simple in execution-Draco's accent: yikes-the special effects are first rate, the clever winks…

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Review of The Stunt Man (1980)

By Jake C (820) on 24 Jul 2017

An energetic, witty, winking delight about equal parts faith and fools…

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Review of Outland (1981)

By Jake C (820) on 20 Jul 2017

Yes, as others have noted again and again, borrowing heavily from High Noon, this is an archetypical Space Western, but the problem lies in…

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Review of Yes, Giorgio (1982)

By Jake C (820) on 20 Jul 2017

Pavarotti's singing was magnificent here, but I blame the casting of Eddie Albert (Green Acres…

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Review of Blue Velvet (1986)

By Jake C (820) on 20 Jul 2017

What is the fantasy on display…

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Review of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

By Jake C (820) on 20 Jul 2017

It's hard to say what I love most about Roger Rabbit-is it the deconstruction of film noir, the genre's usual chiaroscuro replaced here with…

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Review of Clue (1985)

By Jake C (820) on 17 Jul 2017

A spoof of whodunnits, a reflexive labyrinth like the board game itself, a performative topology…

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