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  Review by David Sims ★★★ 8

  like Spielberg had a vision of hell but also he wants to make sure we still have fun

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  Review by James Haves ½ 67

  The Iron Giant was a beautifully done satire on the paranoia of 50s America and the Red Scare, and actively promoted a pacifist ideology. The titular character even says, "I am not a gun".

  In Ready Player One, the Iron Giant is turned into a gun. And nothing more.

  Ready Player One doesn't care what art has to say, it only cares what art looks like. It appropriates the art of others into a self-insert fan fiction that doesn't understand theme, subtext, or anything substantial about what film and games actually are.

  It is one of the first films I've ever seen that I would have a hard time actually calling 'art'.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 51

  READY PLAYER ONE (aka Super Smash Bros: The Movie) is HOOK for kids raised on HOOK. weak storytelling but a one-of-a-kind rendering of stunted youth, and a fascinating study of pop culture as a language / prison. will be the subject of grad school dissertations for decades. bad ones, probably.

  it didn’t really work for me as spectacle (something like Sword Art Online mines similar terrain more successfully), but i dug it as a knotted meta-commentary about our relationship to the things we create / the paralyzing nature of nostalgia. only Spielberg could have made this, and it's mostly interesting only *because* Spielberg actually did.

  anyway, that 2nd act "haunted house" sequence sure is something.

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  Review by andrea🌹 ★★★★ 4

  every teenage boy who has no personality traits besides being good at video games and recognizing references due to all the time he spends on reddit threads: god i’m so fucking valid

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  Review by lauren ★★½ 8

  to each their own, but i still think it was too soon for a spy kids 3: game over remake

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  Review by Sean Baker 11

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Finally caught it. At one of the last theaters still showing it — the Regency Valley Plaza 6, a discount cinema up in North Hollywood. Only $3.50. And screen was actually big and projection was decent. 

  Anyway... lots of fun and The Shining scene was mind-blowing. And of course Kaminski’s 35mm images are A+.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 32

  Steven Spielberg is going to die.

  Hopefully not today or tomorrow or anytime soon, but at some point in the near-ish future — after more than five decades of projecting his soul directly onto movie screens — the bearded architect who built so much of the modern world’s collective imagination will fade into its collective memory. Considering that the increasingly prolific filmmaker has released two major studio features in just the last four months, it might seem a bit premature to speculate about Spielberg’s demise (or even his retirement), but the guy is 71 years old, and not even the gods can live forever.

  More to the point, Spielberg has clearly started to think about this himself, the shadow of…

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  Review by Bethany ★★ 18

  me: still has films like moonlight and phantom thread in my watchlist

  me: chooses this :/

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  Review by karen h. ★★½ 2

  every time i started to have fun tye sheridan would open his mouth and something insane like "A FANBOY KNOWS A HATER" would fall out and cancel the illusion

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 2

  almost every second of this kept me entertained, but by the last few scenes the effect started to wear off. i had fun, but nothing really resonated with me otherwise

  the second challenge and the iron giant were fuckin SICK though

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½ 5

  Spielberg's cautionary tale of an economy of bullshit or a 140min eyeroll? You make the call!

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  Review by Robert Wyatt Duncan 15

  There's a scene where Shrek fights Goku