Tag: Review
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Wicked: For Good Movie Review
Wicked: For Good is a strange combination. On the one hand, it has some great characters, great character relationships, heartfelt songs, and good performances. On the other hand, it has weird and stretched pacing, too many slower songs, an off performance, and a weird relationship with the source material.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix Live-Action Show Review
Less dynamic characters. Boring line delivery. Crammed full of meaningless fan references. It’s just not good. It is at least interesting to see the choices made in adaptation. But if you care about that, you won’t care for the show anyways.
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The Queen’s Gambit Show Review
In the end, it was worth it. Yes, Beth reached the highest heights. But. But, she lost childhood and normalcy and enjoyment out of life on the way.
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One Day Netflix Show Review
If you want real tears, do what you did the rest of the story. Don’t rely on coincidence for your ending. Because while you’ll have my tears in the moment, we’re still crying about the truly smart, interconnected, character-driven tragedies.
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Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning Part One: How to Keep a Franchise Fresh
While Mission: Impossible has always advertised itself on being bigger and badder than the previous movies, what really makes the movies shine is the characters. This movie keeps it fresh through Hayley Atwell’s Grace, and the other characters that drive the twists and thrills of Dead Reckoning: Part One.
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The Batman (2022): When a Story Doesn’t Match Your Character
If the character you’re presenting and the character they need to be for the story you’re showing don’t line up, there’s dissonance. One or the other will get compromised.
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The Chosen: Season 3
This season did a season-long story right. It has themes and interconnection and idea progression through plot. And if you don’t know what that means, it means it’s good.
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The Chosen: Season 2
There’s so much good to this show. So much fun and life and energy and vision. I just hope it doesn’t eventually buckle under its own weight.
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The Arcadian Wild
The Arcadian Wild is where entertainment meets expression, science meets art, and sacred meets skepticism.
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Les Misérables (The Wretched): Volume One
It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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