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July at the Movies

September 15, 2025
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June at the Movies

August 29, 2025

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  • Taxi Driver, 1976 - ★★★★
    Scorsese’s most important film, arguably, but a tough watch, even by today’s standards. From the very beginning of the film we feel Travis’ alienation, and his slide into complete disconnect from reality isn’t hard to believe as he continues to grapple with that loneliness. His isolation is palpable, passed to us through De Niro’s fantastic […]
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965 - ★★★★★
    The Christmas traditions have started.
  • The Usual Suspects, 1995 - ★★★★½
    This film is astonishing - the actors, the tone, the script, everything comes together in a tight, 106 minute thriller that keeps you guessing straight through to the end. Unfortunately, the film will always have a cloud over it following the allegations against Kevin Spacey and Bryan Singer, and the film should never be discussed […]
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, 2021 - ★★★★½
    Millennial cottage core the movie. I watched the first part with a friend who wasn’t familiar with the YouTube video, and she kept asking me what in the fever dream I was watching. And to the unindoctrinated, this movie certainly needs an explainer. Back in the early days of YouTube, when it was more creative, there […]
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    SourceMethodology:The 50 best movies of all time were selected by comparing hundreds of popular films across several metrics. The movies were scored based on metrics that include ratings and rankings from the leading websites for movie reviews — Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and Metacritic — as well as their box office earnings. The metrics also include […]

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