Month: May 2024
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Comedy Movie
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at the Florida Film Festival; one of the films,…
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Animated Movie
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination, a movie that uses the form of animated…
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Comedy Movie
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions of which often shift based on the generation…
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Comedy Movie
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and apparently, the people who made this couldn’t, either.…
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Comedy Movie
Babes
The foundation of most comedy is the gulf between our belief that we can control our bodies, words, and relationships…
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Comedy Movie
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might want it to be. And yet, the people…
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Animated Movie
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
My esteemed colleague Christy Lemire opened her review of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” with a quote from her nine-year-old asking…
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Comedy Movie
Dad & Step-Dad
Inadequacy peeks from behind the uncomfortable smiles and passive aggressive remarks that two adult men exchange in the presence of…
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Animated Movie
Elemental
At its best, Pixar is unbeatable, making clever, charming, and brightly original films to touch the heart and spark the…
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Comedy Movie
Wicked Little Letters
“Wicked Little Letters,” a new film directed by Thea Sharrock with a very funny script by Jonny Sweet, is based…
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