B+
Loving Vincent
It seems like every few years there is an animated movie that knocks me off my theater seat. In my life a few of those that astounded me — due…
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Black Panther
I didn’t expect to feel tears stream down my face so shortly into Black Panther, but within the first few minutes of the film, I was already impacted heavily. In…
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A-
Darkest Hour
In America none of us ever feared that our country would be invaded and we would be subjugated to the will of a foreign country. Even in WWII we were…
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A
Phantom Thread
This may be a bit of a spoiler alert, but there’s a moment in Phantom Thread where Reynolds Woodcock sees a ghost. It’s not particularly frightening, though you could be…
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Novitiate / Hostiles / Call Me by Your Name
Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. Up this month: Novitiate, Hostiles, and Call Me by Your Name. Novitiate…
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A-
Mudbound
As a child, like many others, I loved to play in the mud. We had a “sandpile” next to our barn that was about 25% sand with the rest dirt,…
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The Post
Is there any director with a more impressive filmography than Steven Spielberg? He defined our childhood, explored every genre, invented the blockbuster, and delivered masterpieces worthy of any top ten…
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Coco
Pixar’s latest is a masterpiece of animation and storytelling with it’s characteristic warmth and humor wrapped in a no-cliches, culturally-specific narrative. The story takes place in Mexico, features an all-Latino…
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A+
A Christmas Carol (1951)
“We spirits of Christmas do not live only 1 day of our year, we live the whole 365. So is it true of the child born in Bethlehem: He does…
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B+
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Holiday movies are often based around the importance of family and the simple truth that family is often more dysfunctional than we’d like. Consider A Christmas Story or It’s a…
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