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Ashby
Very Good 17 Points 2015

Quirky goodness from Mickey Rourke, Natt Wolff, Emma Roberts, and Sarah Silvermann. The cast works well together through an unlikely set of circumstances: namely a nerdy kid trying out for football and getting life advice from a career hit man. Mickey especially seems to have settled in to a g…

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The 15:17 to Paris
Very Good 83 Points 2018

Clint Eastwood’s terrorist-on-a-train film unspools like a cinéma vérité home movie. Three yokels from Sacramento – California’s middle-American capital city – get the chance to be heroes and don’t blow it.

Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos & Anthony Sadler famously play themselves as the three du…

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Blinded by the ...
Very Good 66 Points 2019

Bruce Springsteen songs drive Blinded by the Light, a helluva good concept, well played. That said, the film itself is somewhat cloying, more fanzine than Rolling Stone, albeit elevated by the Boss’s oeuvre.

The movie does a great job with some Springsteen songs, projecting the lyrics on wal…

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Welcome to the ...
Good 17 Points 1995

A solid dark comedic coming-of-age story about the downtrodden “Dawn Weiner” and her quirky family. I thought of this as the original “Ugly Betty” who deals with brutal 7th cliques, bullyish boys, a geeky older brother, and a princess little sister — who just happens to be her mom’s favorite. T…

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The Dangerous L...
OK 17 Points 2002

An original coming of age movie with a unique blend of humor, fantasy, and drama. Altar Boys follows a group of bored teenagers as they use pranks, wit, and creative dirty-comic book writing to get by in an oppressive Catholic school. Oh, and if you might take offense at a movie full of jabs at C…

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American Son
OK 17 Points 2008

A war movie that isn’t really about war – but instead is a coming of age drama about a young man on a 96 hour leave before his deployment to Iraq. Filled with drama that comes from confronting the past – a punk kid life in Bakersfield – and the future: responsible behavior, a beautiful n…

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Aces High
OK 17 Points 1976

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines – as the phrase went back in the day. Magnificent indeed, but also jaded, troubled, and struggling with the fact that so little of them ever make it through WWI sotries alive. Aces High takes a soft-pedal (well, soft for a 70’s movie anyway) look a…

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Max
OK 66 Points 2015

Max’s trailer promised more than the movie delivers. The story of a military dog who aides a teen’s coming-of-age, it pulls heartstrings and warms the heart in equal measure, especially for those of us with a soft-spot for the US military and dogs alike. That’s me, which is why I fell hard for …

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Bend It Like Be...
None Yet 0 Points 2002
The Man in the ...
None Yet 0 Points 1991