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Us (2019)::rating::4

U s is one of those movies that will provoke polarized responses from audiences and lots of flowery adjectives from a needlessly verbose individual like me.  At once, this movie is audacious, infectiously funny, and relentlessly weird.  Writer-director Jordan Peele simultaneously blends unsettling suspense with an off-center wackiness that will frustrate some viewers and enthrall others.…

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The Kid

The Kid (2019)::rating::3

"W hen legend becomes fact, print the legend."  These words close the classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and they a make fitting valediction for frontier mythology.  Men like the Earps, the James Gang, and Billy the Kid have received so much posthumous embellishment that it's almost impossible to distinguish fact from fiction.  Where dime…

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Ed Wood

Ed Wood (1994)::rating::5

O f all the film directors who've ever amassed enough work for a coherent filmography, none are more challenging than Ed Wood.  His paradoxical aesthetic boggles my ability to hand out star ratings.  For example, Plan 9 from Outer Space is rightfully held as one of the absolute worst movies ever unleashed on the public.  Yet, its pedestrian…

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