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A small family drama, with some added sexuality confusion thrown in, it’s intimate and engrossing all the way through — a delight.
★★★★✩
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Matchstick Men
“You’re not a bad guy, you know. You’re just not a very good one.”
I love a good con story even more than I love movies about fathers and daughters, and this is some good light-hearted fun, but less than the sum of it’s parts (even if it does have a classic Cage meltdown) — still a great watch and everyone involves knocks it out of the park, it just doesn’t add up to all that much in the end.
★★★✩✩
Minority Report
“The Precogs are never wrong. But, occasionally… they do disagree.”
As we edge closer to the time this is set, if feels more and more like it could be close to our reality sometime soon; it’s third act wanes, but is kept engrossing simply because of the execution of the futuristic ideas at play.
★★★★✩
Young Adult
“Sometimes in order to heal… a few people have to get hurt.”
A sweet and blackly funny look at a fully fleshed out materialistic narcissist, a portrait of the popular kid in school who never fully transitioned to adulthood.
★★★★✩
Million Dollar Baby
“If there’s magic in boxing, it’s the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It’s the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.”
One of the better boxing movies, it’s a devastating story about a poor woman who loves to box and becomes truly great at it — and how that gets taken away from her all too soon; heartbreaking.
★★★★✩