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Movie Night: Talladega Nights – The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
There arenβt many fun movies anymore. Most new comedies feel like theyβre trying to prove something. They come with a built-in thesis about inequality, politics, or identity, and the jokes are often secondary to the message. The humor is dry. The scripts are self-aware. Everything is a reference to something else. So lately, Iβve been β read more
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Movie Night: Mountainhead
Mountainhead is frustrating. Not because itβs incomprehensible, but because it thinks itβs saying something important when itβs really just four rich guys name-dropping dead philosophers to one-up each other. This is what happens when a movie wants to be My Dinner with Andre but ends up being Entourage for men who took one undergrad course β read more
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Movie Night: Mickey17
I havenβt read Mickey7, the novel by Edward Ashton that inspired Bong Joon-hoβs Mickey 17, mostly because I havenβt purchased a new work of fiction since last year, and most of the ones I do buy are gifts for my husband. But I donβt feel starved of material. The film, on its own, is dense β read more
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