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In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise confronts his ultimate nemesis.
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Hello again.
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Making the case for Oakland movies to become its own distinct genre, like Boston movies, by highlighting five movies shaped and defined by The Town.
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Ranking the 10 best movies of Jennifer Lawrence's loaded filmography that is unfortunately trending in the wrong direction after a blistering start to…
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Casting a Pick Six Podcast movie, underappreciated and overrated films, and more in the first ever Long Shot mailbag.
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A spoiler-free review of Hanks' latest World War II film that is good enough to warrant a free Apple TV+ trial, but doesn't match the heights of…
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I ranked 12 actresses who should replace Theron in the Furiosa prequel film that George Miller is planning to make following the overwhelming success of…
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In the weirdest (and dumbest?) edition of this newsletter to date, I explore what a Mario Kart movie could look like, including Adam Driver as Luigi and…
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A (surprisingly short!) spoiler-free review of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's latest movie about the pilot of a hijacked flight. It's taut, tense, and well…
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J.J. Abrams' monster movie might rely on a gimmick, but the end result is a genuinely terrifying movie that has aged remarkably well.
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Now streaming on HBO, Lucy in the Sky is a careful character study of an astronaut — expertly portrayed by Natalie Portman — slowly unraveling upon…
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A mostly spoiler-free review of the recently released Sea Fever, a movie that isn't actually about coronavirus, but feels like it was made for this…
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