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Gwen Ihnat

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Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “The ending is ambiguous but not tragic, making Vivian and Cay groundbreakers not just in the ’50s but in the ’80s as well. ” – AV Club Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (2020) 94% A- EDIT “The result is seamless, as plots veer off in different directions without ever feeling jarring. The interactive element also makes you more involved in Kimmy's plight, as, after all, you're the one in charge of her success.” – AV Club Aug 9, 2021 Full Review Friends: The Reunion (2021) 67% C+ EDIT “Friends: The Reunion is a self-aggrandizing celebration of a long-gone but still beloved show.” – AV Club May 26, 2021 Full Review The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020) 96% A- EDIT “It's a fascinating, unprecedented story in the history of pop music, which makes it rather surprising that it's taken this long to be documented.” – AV Club Dec 9, 2020 Full Review Belushi (2020) 91% B EDIT “Cutler wisely lets those voices tell the story, with no overarching narrator; the closest is SNL alum Bill Hader doing a spookily spot-on job of mimicking Belushi's voice to read his letters, often aided by effective, starkly drawn animation.” – AV Club Nov 20, 2020 Full Review Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020) 100% B EDIT “Best of all, Candace Against The Universe plays up the heart of the relationship among Candace, Phineas, and Ferb: For all her schemes, the show often revealed that Candace really does love her brothers.” – AV Club Aug 25, 2020 Full Review The Go-Go's (2020) 98% B+ EDIT “The indescribable chemistry between Carlisle, Wiedlin, Schock, Caffey, and Valentine is fully on display throughout the doc.” – AV Club Jul 29, 2020 Full Review The Wizard of Lies (2017) 73% B- EDIT “At the end of the film, we might have a better understanding of how this giant Ponzi scheme unfolded, but we still have no idea why it happened-a significant shortcoming for an HBO movie with this kind of pedigree.” – AV Club Jul 20, 2020 Full Review Valley Girl (2020) 59% C+ EDIT “By the end, even a fan of the original may feel dread instead of glee at the rise of synth on the soundtrack, announcing yet another interminable musical number.” – AV Club May 14, 2020 Full Review Noelle (2019) 56% C+ EDIT “All of this doesn't add up to the warm alchemy of a Christmas classic, or a holiday movie you'd go out of your way to watch more than once, even if it is streaming.” – AV Club Nov 12, 2019 Full Review The College Admissions Scandal (2019) 71% C+ EDIT “There's unfortunately much too little about the real victims here-the hundreds of kids those spots belonged to in the first place, which they were robbed of due to a heartless mercenary conspiracy rooted in class privilege.” – AV Club Oct 11, 2019 Full Review One, Two, Three (1961) 88% EDIT “Past the manic frenzy of the screwball comedy are many sly nods to the frosty Cold War relations between the East and the West.” – AV Club Jun 28, 2019 Full Review Always Be My Maybe (2019) 89% B+ EDIT “Ultimately, Wong and Park and their mutual affection carry the movie, assisted by a gut-busting cameo by Keanu Reeves, of all people, portraying a do-gooder rival for Sasha's affections.” – AV Club May 30, 2019 Full Review Grease 2 (1982) 37% EDIT “Unlike Grease's "cool" Rizzo (Stockard Channing), Stephanie doesn't have to be mean to anyone who doesn't fit into her Pink Lady standard. She's just cool, period.” – AV Club Feb 27, 2019 Full Review Desk Set (1957) 100% EDIT “Drunken Christmas office parties and antiquated technology notwithstanding, the real fun in Desk Set is watching these two pros and longtime loves play off of each other for one of their final cinematic turns together.” – AV Club Jan 25, 2019 Full Review Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018) 97% A EDIT “Fonda is so solid throughout the documentary that an enthusiastic reference to a prophetic psychic reading sticks out as a flighty departure.” – AV Club Dec 14, 2018 Full Review The King (2017) 77% A- EDIT “The overall merging of the two stories offers deeper insight into the fall of both the King and the country as a whole.” – AV Club Jun 21, 2018 Full Review My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) 48% C EDIT “The animation is certainly richer than the traditional flatness of the regular series, but you have to wonder to what use it's being put.” – AV Club Oct 6, 2017 Full Review Trolls (2016) 76% B+ EDIT “Trolls winds up transforming from a prospective toy commercial to a spiritual lesson about being content with what you already have.” – AV Club Nov 1, 2016 Full Review The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story (2015) B EDIT “The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story does a good job of continuing that give-the-audience-what they want promise, with enough backstory inside info to make it a glee-filled watch, just like the show that spawned it.” – AV Club Oct 12, 2015 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) 80% B+ EDIT “There's no heartfelt, overarching message here-even teamwork, as much as it's mentioned, doesn't seem to stick with anyone-but that doesn't detract from the fun.” – AV Club Feb 5, 2015 Full Review My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013) B- EDIT “My Little Pony: Equestria Girls continues the appeal of Friendship Is Magic, as the heartening lessons of Ponyville-on friendship, leadership, morality, etc.-transcend its equine-dominated world.” – AV Club Jul 16, 2013 Full Review
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