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I was excited about The Franchise, but I ultimately felt more disappointed than mad.

Though I’m not the most familiar with Larraín’s work, both this and El Conde leave me feeling that he just does not make movies I connect with

Flow is exactly the kind of movie that we need more of in Hollywood

That Christmas has enough magic to stick around

Sweetpea is a perfectly inoffensive show

All We Imagine as Light offered what was by far the most aesthetically insightful and thematically precise conclusion not just of the festival, but perhaps of the entire year

The Order delivers just enough on the crime thriller front to be satisfying

It’s a wild idea that’s executed about as well as it could be

This is tonally and thematically all over the place, poorly paced, and narratively unbelievable at nearly every turn

Like many sequels, the impact of seeing this world and these characters doesn’t have the same wow factor

I don’t think this movie quite captures the power of seeing The Piano Lesson on stage, but it’s still a successful adaptation