Every time I don’t think Alexander Payne can top himself, he does. After the supremely disappointing Downsizing followed by an agonizing six year wait, he’s back in rare form with one of the best films of the year. It’s hard to even know where to begin—the incredible acting from…everybody, but especially the three main leads? The pacing that allows everything that happens to float in the air but not ever feel like it’s taking too long to move forward? The…
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I was prepared for this to be the worst Disney movie in a long time, just based on the marketing and the animation and the villain song, and it’s definitely not that. Those are all still issues, as are the comedic relief characters, the writing in general, and the way it feels like a Disney Toon feature that somehow made it to theaters because the creators were given an extra couple million dollars to make it work. But…you know, at…