Ernest and Celestine
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The animation is like a giant watercolor painting come to life with the smooth, soft colors outlined in crisp, black pen…
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Metropolis
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There are too many vital characters interacting with each other, crisscrossing subplots, that the logistics of the story gets lost within itself, but the saving grace is the artwork…
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Quiz Show
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Quiz Show relishes in every opportunity to make the audience feel uncomfortable about living complacent lives, and despairs in the politicization of public media. All the characters are consumed with appeasing to a society that glorifies celebrities and groups people into “winners” and “losers”…
Read MoreWhen Harry Met Sally
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Overall, When Harry Met Sally is deserving of its classic status in pop culture. It does have some unfinished strings attached to it, but the comedy manages to cover it up smoothly…
Read MoreThe Secret of NIMH
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Mrs. Brisby is a timid yet courageous figure dealing with the absolute worst possible outcome. But the movie tosses in the rats’ backstory like an afterthought, and in an already anthropomorphized universe, fails to deliver on why the rats are more significant than other creatures…
Read MoreLegally Blonde
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The premise has many golden moments they can exploit—West Coast vibrant personality clashing with the uptight East Coast, romantic entanglements, and the chaotic college atmosphere…
Read MoreMoonrise Kingdom
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Moonrise Kingdom depicts life through a child’s eyes: messy, convoluted, distracting, cruel and yet wistful, charming, sophisticated, spontaneous…
Read MoreThe Little Prince
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whenever the story follows the Little Prince in his travels, it’s absolutely mesmerizing. The production used stop-motion animation for these sequences, and all the characters were made out of thin, practically see-through paper…
Read MorePawn Sacrifice
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Bobby Fischer’s life is the game. From the moment he is born, Fischer’s life is this life-sized chess match he has no control over. He is a pawn in Cold War politics, sacrificed in the name of larger goals…
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