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Last Flag Flying
Great 17 Points 2017

Last Flag Flying is a heart-felt drama about ’Nam buddies re-united to help one of their own bury his Marine son. Steve Carrell, Laurence Fishburne, and especially Bryan Cranston are fantastic in a story that will have you alternating between deep thought about war, belly laughs, goosebumps, and …

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Three Billboard...
Really Great 83 Points 2017

This oddly titled gem is a crazy crime movie from MidAmerica, set in fictional Ebbing, Missouri, not in Fargo, North Dakota, or Hibbing, Minnesota, or a real hicksville you may know in the Central Time Zone.

Forbidding title aside, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing is readily accessible and se…

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WikChip Video Superlative Actors & Film
The Disaster Ar...
None Yet 0 Points 2017
The Shape of Water
Great 17 Points 2017

Guillermo del Toro struts his story-telling prowess by weaving an implausibly-intriguing love story between a humanoid amphibian and a quirky and homely maid. It’s the implausibility that makes this movie so impressive. One is completely drawn in by the story and the characters, and the fact th…

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The Greatest Sh...
OK 66 Points 2017

The Greatest Showman is …who again… Hugh Jackman or P.T. Barnum? This is Barnum’s biopic but Jackman’s show, designed to feature who? Jackman, singing and strutting as only Hugh Jackman can do.

The Greatest Showman’s greatest problem is that Jackman likes to be liked. Unfortunately, lik…

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WikChip Video "Everything you'll ever want?" Uh, no.
Downsizing
Good 17 Points 2017

Great premise, great cast, but something was off. Matt Damon’s character; he never fulfills the potential for something really funny. The movie isn’t a total flop. It has several moderately funny moments and the whole premise of miniaturization has you wondering about the benefits should it eve…

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All the Money i...
Really Great 66 Points 2017

All the Money in the World slays as a kidnapping thriller and as a biopic of the legendary J. Paul Getty, once the world’s richest man. The thriller jumps off to a startling beginning, takes a series of surprising turns, and remains thrilling right up to the well-known ending. That’s a solid sh…

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Molly's Game
Very Good 66 Points 2017

Molly’s Game contains large doses of glamorous sin, sans sex, even though the women are all super sexy. The lack of sex, consensual or #MeToo, makes this R-rated flick rather tame as sexy movies go. That said, Jessica Chastain surely got good money to gamely play the sexy and intrepid Molly Blo…

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WikChip Video Glamorous Sin, Sans Sex
Phantom Thread
None Yet 0 Points 2017
Mudbound
Very Good 17 Points 2017

A tale of two sides of a rural Mississippi farm; those who worked it and those who depended on them. A return from WWII; racism after the colorblind war; down on the farm struggles; crossing boundaries with human kindness. Mudbound is top notch dramatic character study. Lose yourself in the Dee…

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