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Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special 2022
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Norm waiting for the dog to stop barking so that he can continue his one-take comedy zoom call. I laughed a lot.
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Napoleon Dynamite 2004
"Hey, Napoleon. What did you do last summer again?"
"I told you! I spent it with my uncle in Alaska hunting wolverines!"
"Did you shoot any?"
"Yes, like 50 of 'em! They kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that?"
"What kind of gun did you use?"
"A freakin' 12-gauge, what do you think?"I find Napoleon Dynamite to be one of the most entertaining movies about basically nothing, ever.
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Nope 2022
This is the hardest rating I’ve had to give this year (I go into more detail in my second review). Peele’s films seem to be becoming increasingly aware of themselves, and what I was hoping would be a tight homage to beloved sci-fi iconography, with his usual layered commentary, in my experience was a jumbled mess of ideas and derivative thrills. There’s so much he’s getting at here that is great on its own, and is great to analyze after, but I…
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Dazed and Confused 1993
*Was a 90, now a 100*
Rises up higher and higher in my Linklater rankings with every revisit. I adore how this is about the small interactions that nonetheless feel cosmic, and how the minutiae of high school life can be evoked with such poetry. Every moment feels like the cusp of the next big thing, but of what exactly? Or is it anything at all? The answer lies in the beer keg running out, with a half empty cup…
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