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The Phantom Menace is what happens when you allow George Lucas complete creative control over a film. The movie is full of plot holes, platitudes, morally questionable characters, and utterly irreverent to decent story writing. The film acts as a wrecking ball in the glorious temple of the Star...
Is Citizen Kane a bad movie? No. Is Citizen Kane the greatest movie ever made, as its reputation claims to be? Well if I can think of roughly a tens of thousands of movies that are better than Citizen Kane, I am leaning towards, No -- Citizen Kane is not the greatest movie ever made. Instead of...
The sound of metal is a profound story about a man discovering the beauty of stillness.
Nomadsland is a beautiful and compelling story of a woman, Fern, played by Frances McDormant, who belongs to a new society of nomads, living out of her van on the fringes of American society. In this story, Fern portrays one woman’s resolute battle for her own independence against the inhuman...
Brokeback Mountain is a story that honors the west - a region of inspiring natural beauty and yet at the same time a region with a terribly depressing history of bloodshed. Usually we hear stories of “cowboys” and “Indians”, or settlers and marauders, lawlessness and the civil war. However, in this...