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Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

Tim Brayton — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:13:49 +0000

Between 1984 and 2018, we got 18 feature films and two anthology segments by "the Coen Brothers", and despite a wide, eclectic range of genres, stories, and tones, these films collective display an extremely unified creative voice. Between 2021 and 2024, we now have two feature films made by onl...

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Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)

Tim Brayton — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:06:07 +0000

A review requested by John, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.

The 1990 comedy-thri...

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Wonka (2023)

Tim Brayton — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:47:00 +0000

If you have set yourself the task of making a movie prequel to probably Roald Dahl's best-known children's book, 1964's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and what you are actually doing is making a prequel to the 1971 film based on that book, Wonka (2023) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Trolls Band Together (2023)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:05:01 +0000

Presuming that Trolls Band Together represents the conclusion of DreamWorks Animation's Trolls Trilogy - and given DreamWorks's historical and ongoing shamelessness about resurrecting any franchise whose brand name seems to have a few dollars left to squeeze out of it, this is a te...

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)

Tim Brayton — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 02:21:56 +0000

A review requested by Kevin, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 01:45:43 +0000

A review requested by STinG, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.

If there is such a ...

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Barbie (2023)

Tim Brayton — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:40:43 +0000

The phrase "generous to a fault" irresistibly suggests itself in connection with the feature film Barbie, a combination of toy commercial, exercise in feminist critical theory, anti-capitalist satire, and celebration of the ennobling power of consumerism directed and co-written by Greta Ger...

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Asteroid City (2023)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:45:47 +0000

Actually trying to talk about Asteroid City, on any level more involved than "I really liked it, best movie of 2023 so far, 4.5 stars out of 5" (which is, for the record, the short version of this review) feels like willfully stepping into the world's most obvious trap. There's a recurring ...

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Elemental (2023)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:47:11 +0000

We are living in a golden age of movies for children that present metaphorical parables about racism, in which the metaphor is horrendously bad and probably makes the pro-racism argument more effectively than the anti-racism argument. Not a good thing to have a golden age of. But anyway, here were a...

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You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

Tim Brayton — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:31:53 +0000

The career of writer-director Nicole Holofcener has been one of immaculate consistency. In terms of quality: almost all of her films fall into a snug little sweet spot of "awfully good and lovely without ever being (or striving to be) bash-you-over-the-head-Great", and while this may sound like a mi...

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