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- Free Solo: Winner of the Best Documentary Oscar. You wanna see a real-life Spiderman without CGI? Alex Honnold is your man.
- The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs: Five, or is it six, vignettes taken from the Old West and made by the Coen Brothers.
- Black Panther: Needed a little editing in the last third, we thought. The Lion King meets, well, I dunno.
- Roma: Okay, granted, I was bored to tears. But I was watching on my laptop. Visually stunning, but this is a little like a master chef preparing a beautiful dish with just a 2-ounce piece of beef. There’s a lot of incredible style going on here, but as to the story? Meh.
- Bohemian Rhapsody: A star is born. Then he gets a little crazy with the free love and partying. Then he plays a redemptive Live Aid set at Wembley.
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6. A Star Is Born: Winner of the La La Land memorial “Well, The First Half Hour Was Really Good” award. But then it fell off. As soon as this fourth version of the same film was in the can, someone in Hollywood felt the urge to make a fifth incarnation of Little Women. It’s a race.
Never saw: “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Greenbook,” “Leave No Trace,” or “A Quiet Place.” Never saw but would like to: “First Man.”
Crazy Rich Asians was fun. Greenbook was great! Also thank you for posting my big giant face here, reviewing Hustlers. It was so brave of JLo to play a stripper- it reminded me of when Charlize Theron shaved her eyebrows off for Monster. I mean, talk about out-of -the box thinking. JLo as a stripper! I can’t get over it.