Tag: Movie Review

Buckle up, for one of the weirdest movies of 2022. I should have known it would be wild with director Jeff Baena at the helm. His last movie was called Horse Girl (2020) which was as odd as it sounds. Spin Me Round starts off relatively normal. Amber (Alison Brie) works for a run of…
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You might recognize Megan Park from her acting career. Her most well known role is undoubtedly on the television show The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008), the same show where Shailene Woodley also first gained notoriety. But Park steps into the role of writer and director with her feature film debut, The Fallout.…
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Alex Garland has quickly become one of my favorite directors. Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018) were both phenomenal movies that kept you on the edge of your seat. I expected Men to be the same style of psychological thriller that touched on important and intricate themes and ideologies. Men begins when Harper (Jessie Buckley)…
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Turning Red is a Pixar movie that departs from the traditional trajectory of the studio, but in a good way. This movie is the first time that an all female creative leadership team has created a movie for the animation studio. You might recognize writer and director Domee Shi from her animated short film, Bao…
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The Worst Person in the World is a Norwegian film from writer and director Joachim Trier. It is a coming of age story for someone approaching their thirties. Julie (Renate Reinsve) bounces around from one thing to the next searching for something she can’t quite name. In school, she changes her focus several times from…
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The Novice is the first feature film from writer and director Lauren Hadaway and it’s one of the most excellent directorial debuts I’ve seen in a long while. Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman) is a college freshman and decides to join the rowing team, despite the fact that she has never rowed before. When she learns…
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Encanto is one of the most vibrant and colorful animated movies from Walt Disney Studios. It follows Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz), a Columbian teenager who is struggling to find her place in her family. The Madrigal’s live in a magical house in a city called Encanto. They’re different from the others who live in the village…
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Here we go with another movie in the Marvel franchise. This time we’re dropped into the world of Shaun (Simu Liu) and his best friend Katy (Awkwafina) who work as valets. Out of the blue, the two are attacked by a group who are after Shaun’s pendant – given to him by his deceased mother.…
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Free Guy is one of those movies where the premise sounds really dumb, especially if you’re not into video games. But I have to say this was one of my more surprising favorites of 2021 so try to stick with me here. Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is living a pretty average life in Free City. He…
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“I knew that was what you were thinking. You’re always thinking things, you thinker! You thinker! You think things!” This is an absurd line that could have really been awful if delivered by someone other than Alana Haim. Licorice Pizza is Haim’s first acting role but you’d never know it from her performance. She plays…
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