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3.5/4
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Stuart Saves His Family
(1995)
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Erik Childress
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Al Franken & Harold Ramis’ still-too-overlooked film is a unicorn in the SNL-inspired universe that is not just very funny with fantastic work from Harris Yulin but also an emotional and truthful film about intervention and sponsorship.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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4/4
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My Girl
(1991)
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Erik Childress
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A film that renders a beautiful adolescent friendship wonderfully played by Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, in one of the great child performances, while also not fumbling away confronting genuine lessons about grief and loss for young people.
Posted Jun 06, 2024
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4/4
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Her
(2013)
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Erik Childress
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One of the more profound films ever made about loneliness, Spike Jonze's beautiful film has Scarlett Johansson's best performance in a narrative that reinvigorates the need for not just communication but the privilege of listening.
Posted Oct 13, 2023
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3/4
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Causeway
(2022)
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Erik Childress
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Two stellar performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry craft a friendship built around good company and comfort that is a rarely seen dynamic between men and women in film.
Posted Sep 19, 2023
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3.5/4
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Roxanne
(1987)
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Erik Childress
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Steve Martin had already established himself as one of the great humorists of our time but with Roxanne he revealed a genuine romantic who channeled the magic of Cyrano into one of the great romantic comedies of the 1980s.
Posted Oct 19, 2022
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4/4
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Colossal
(2016)
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Erik Childress
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The kaiju began as a metaphor but the way Nacho Vigolando turns it on his head with the personal struggles beset by alcoholism is funny and unnerving in equal measure. Anne Hathaway & Jason Sudeikis give career performances here.
Posted Sep 29, 2022
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2.5/4
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Tombstone
(1993)
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Erik Childress
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Val Kilmer's performance is legendary and a likely reason this film is more fondly remembered as a modern western classic rather than the mess it ultimately becomes in trying to tell a full piece of the legend.
Posted Sep 29, 2022
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1/4
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Maneater
(2022)
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Erik Childress
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The filmmaking and special effects are so bad that it is hard to tell whether this falls into the woefully insincere Sharknado camp or the kind of awful movie classic that audiences gather around on their own Satellite of Love.
Posted Sep 13, 2022
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4/4
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Say Anything...
(1989)
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Erik Childress
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Cameron Crowe’s film helped graduate the ‘80s teen romance into a new level and decades later these are still characters and relationships that carry meaning for all of us and our own insecurities about love and economics.
Posted Aug 03, 2022
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3.5/4
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Some Kind of Wonderful
(1987)
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Erik Childress
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John Hughes’ more fully-realized version of Pretty In Pink that truly gets the hopeless outsider’s view of romance without love and not gracefully understanding their pursuit of it.
Posted Jul 25, 2022
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4/4
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1978)
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Erik Childress
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Communism gives way to psychiatry as our boogeymen now come from within in Philip Kaufman’s superior version of the classic story.
Posted Jul 25, 2022
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4/4
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Aliens
(1986)
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Erik Childress
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A masterclass across multiple genres that is, unarguably, one of the greatest sequels and, even, films of all-time.
Posted Jul 25, 2022
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3.5/4
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When Harry Met Sally...
(1989)
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Erik Childress
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Has the film contributed to a generation of romantic comedies where friendship is a consolation prize? Maybe. But its winning performances and Ephron's funny script still make the film a delight in any generation.
Posted Jul 25, 2022
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4/4
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Mad Max: Fury Road
(2015)
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Erik Childress
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Miller has crafted the kind of visionary action epic that makes peers and contemporaries envious while holding audiences in rapture waiting for that first bit of silence when they can finally relinquish their breath.
Posted May 13, 2015
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4/4
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Clerks II
(2006)
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Erik Childress
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Not just an all-around growth experience for Kevin Smith and his characters but a film that is in several ways actually better than the original.
Posted Jul 20, 2006
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2/4
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The Stepford Wives
(2004)
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Erik Childress
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A film with shadows of promise that you can feel is so stitched together that the continuity watchers just lost track and eventually gave up.
Posted Jun 14, 2004
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