I liked this better than the first one. Really entertaining super hero flick. I'm starting to get why Captain America is so popular. Never thought I would type that sentence.
4 out of 5
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Review – The Florida Project
Half way through the movie I got up to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The film transports you back to childhood, when everything was bright and colorful, when there was nothing to worry about, when you could scream at the top of your lungs as you got into mischief with your friends. I was so transported to that time, in fact, that I stopped to enhance my nostalgia...
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Micro Review – Logan Lucky
Ocean’s 11 meets Hell or High Water meets Shawshank Redemption. Hell of a fun movie, with magnetic characters and a sharp script, expertly executed. How does Steven Soderbergh do it time and again?
4 out of 5 stars
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Micro Review – Spiderman: Homecoming
This movie perfectly captures the awkwardness of being a teenager. Because a lot of it is super awkward. But it's Spiderman. It'll always be cool.
4 out of 5 stars
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Micro Review – Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a badass.
3.5 out of 5
How about that for Micro!?
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Micro Review – Captain America: The First Avenger
I'll be honest. I almost gave this a 2.5 strictly because of the ridiculously corny red dude.
3.5 out of 5
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Carol, and The Company That Made It
A review of the 2015 film Carol, and the unexpected cultural impact it has on cinema.
They’re right there, emerging from the darkness, before the movie even has a chance to explain itself. Those big three letters: TWC.
I can’t help but notice the big TWC letters at the beginning of many recent films I’ve been catching up on. The (now disgraced) Weinstein Compa...
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Micro Review – The Shape of Water
This shouldn’t work. But it does. It’s a movie about a mute woman who meets an amphibious/man creature. I’m not a huge Del Toro fan, but The Shape of Water is charming, it’s relevant. It’s strange, and magical, and romantic. The musical score is fantastical and lovely. I think part of what makes this movie feel magical – like a messed up fairy tale – is the way it...
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Micro Review – 10 Cloverfield Lane
What if the crazy doomsday prepper who kidnapped you was actually right about the apocalypse? That’s the question Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s character grapples with in this locked-room thriller. This was not really what I was expecting from this movie. I apparently didn’t know anything about it when I started watching it, which is often the best way to watch ...
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Review – Phantom Thread
I think this might be brilliant. After finishing it, all I could do was think back over the course of the entire movie, picking it apart in my mind, trying to remember why something happened, or what something looked like, or how something sounded, what something might have tasted like. I feel like I not only HAVE to see this movie again, but I WANT to see it agai...
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