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  The Humans 2021

  ★★★½ Added by A.A. Dowd

  Full A.V. Club review. Goes a little overboard with the A24orror flourishes, though they do prevent this from ever feeling entirely like filmed theater.

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  West Side Story 2021

  ★★★★ Added by A.A. Dowd 1

  Full A.V. Club review. For my money, Spielberg's best movie since the one-two punch of War Of The Worlds and Munich. Fits nicely into his ongoing interrogation of American values and institutions.

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  ParaNorman 2012

  ★★★★ Rewatched by A.A. Dowd 03 Nov 2018 5

  "What do you think you're doing firing on civilians? That's for the police to do!"

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ★★½ Watched by A.A. Dowd 10 Dec 2021

  Pivotal scene is the bluntly confessional conversation where the movie just comes right out and tells us that Warner Bros. was going to make more Matrix with or without everyone involved, so Lana and Keanu and company signed on to protect the franchise best they could. Afraid I don't find that daring so much as just depressingly revealing: a kind of apology for the film's very existence—and one that betrays the animating inspiration of the whole endeavor as a begrudged,…