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The Phantom Menace is what happens when you allow George Lucas complete creative control over a film. The movie is full of plot holes, platitudes, morally questionable characters, and utterly irreverent to decent story writing. The film acts as a wrecking ball in the glorious temple of the Star...
Is Citizen Kane a bad movie? No. Is Citizen Kane the greatest movie ever made, as its reputation claims to be? Well if I can think of roughly a tens of thousands of movies that are better than Citizen Kane, I am leaning towards, No -- Citizen Kane is not the greatest movie ever made. Instead of...
The sound of metal is a profound story about a man discovering the beauty of stillness.
Brokeback Mountain is a story that honors the west - a region of inspiring natural beauty and yet at the same time a region with a terribly depressing history of bloodshed. Usually we hear stories of “cowboys” and “Indians”, or settlers and marauders, lawlessness and the civil war. However, in this...