Romance and Christmas go together like hot chocolate and candy canes. What doesn't go together so well, in SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S, are car accidents and identical packaging, because those phenomena allow Rachel (Zoey Deutch) to receive a Tiffany's engagement ring (It's fucking huge) intended for Ethan's (Kendrick Sampson) girlfriend. Now, Ethan has to tell Rachel, who, by the way, he's just met yesterday, that her ring is not hers and that her boyfriend, Gary (Ray Nicholson), totally just coasted on his grand gesture. But Rachel's so sweet and giving. Her smile just beams from cheek to cheek and she loves so dearly and maybe, Ethan's feeling more like he actually wants Rachel inste-oh, here we go.

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Maria Schrader's "She Said" recounts the New York Times investigation of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's myriad of abuses against women: sexual assault, rape, harassment, bullying and the NDA-equipped settlements used to legally silence the victims. Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) & Jody Kantor (Zoe Kazan) break the story, trying to persuade ex-Miramax employees like Zelda Perkins (Samantha Morton) and Laura Madden (Jennifer Ehle) to go on the record. This is just one of those stories; Once one person comes forward, within seconds, the floodgates burst into splinters. It's one of the year's best films. | End Song: "Black Me Out" - Against Me!

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Ralphie's back in A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS, the sequel to the 1983 classic! However, it's no longer Ralphie; it's Ralph (Peter Billingsley), grown-ass struggling writer, husband and father of two kids, Parker. Why's everybody named Parker out here struggling in the big city? Anyway, when Ralph learns of his father's death, he bears the additional responsibility of making sure his family's Christmas is the best it's ever been. Sure, he's jobless and usually tends to respond to adversity in bumbling form, but he's got this! I mean, this time, he really has no other choice...

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Happy Thanksgiving! This episode fulfills a request made by my friend Matt (Twitter handle: @DarthRandal92), who's a MASSIVE Kevin Smith fan. He wanted me to cover 1994's CLERKS, but I didn't quite see that review alone as a fitting "thank you" for Matt's listenership and support over this year, so I watched/reviewed ALL FOURTEEN KEVIN SMITH FLICKS. Twas a large project, but I became a Kevin Smith fan in the process, so thank you, Matty. This one's for you. <3--------------------------------------KEVIN SMITH'S FILMOGRAPHYClerks (1994) Mallrats (1995) Chasing Amy (1997) Dogma (1999) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Jersey Girl (2004) Clerks II (2006) Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) Cop Out (2010) Red State (2011) Tusk (2014) Yoga Hosers (2016) Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) Clerks III (2022) -----------------------------------------

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A few years ago, I wrote, regarding their involvement in AVENGERS: ENDGAME, that the Russo Brothers had the most thankless, difficult job in Hollywood. I mean, putting a bow on a decade's worth of loosely connected movies with a library's worth of characters? Tough. But Ryan Coogler has BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER.

Chadwick Boseman's death serves as an atom bomb to this movie and no conversation about this will ever be able to avoid the art-imitating-life parallel.

So Coogler has to honor Boseman and his character, T'Challa, as heroes in their own rights. He's gotta follow up one of the most successful movies of all-fucking-time. He's gotta fit his pieces within the Marvel paradigm. And, y'know, it's still gotta rule as a superhero movie.

I'm not saying the end result is perfect, but would you really rather have the Russos doing this? I didn't think so.

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Welcome to another segment of "In Four Films," the interview show where you learn about critics, writers and film-lovers through the four movies that make them...them! Today, Morgan Roberts (whose work can be found on Filmotomy, The Cherry Picks, In Their Own League) joins the show, talking all things Catholic and mumblecore. More specifically, her movies are:
The Trouble With Angels (1966) dir. Ida Lupino

Beauty and the Beast (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise

Your Sister's Sister (2011) dir. Lynn Shelton

Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

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THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN is a break-up story. Not of lovers, but of friends, which is even sadder, somehow? Especially with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as the leads. Maybe it's because these kinds of breakups aren't so common. Maybe it's because this doesn't occupy as much cultural real estate as romantic break-ups. I guess, then, that Martin McDonagh's doing us all a favor writing and directing this thing. It partially opened up a few wounds, some self-inflicted. Who would've thought a silly movie with donkeys, severed limbs and the English replacement of "eh" instead of "uh" would be able to bum me out (in a good way)? Not I...not I.

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TÁR is titled after Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), world-famous composer and conductor, an icon in the Western classical music sphere. This story follows her fall from grace. It's less a "fall" and more of Tár circling the drain made from the slippery consequences of her fucked-up actions. On Twitter, I called it a "darkly comedic egomaniacal excursion to the humble pie factory," which, as I type this, conjures the image of Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka shrieking in the LSD hell tunnel. Now, imagine that shriek internalized and viciously stifled, and that resembles Cate Blanchett's face throughout this movie. It's a wild one today, folx.

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LIFE AFTER BETH is about twenty-something Zach (Dane Dehaan), who discovers his recently deceased girlfriend Beth (Aubrey Plaza) has inexplicably resurrected, much to the nervous and understandably paranoid, though grateful, surprise of her parents (John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon). As the couple explore their second chance to say and do the things and activities previously left unsaid, Zach notices Beth has changed since her last life, and not for the better...

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We're All Going to the World's Fair is a horror film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun. In it, a teen girl named Casey (Anna Cobb in her film debut) shares her experience playing an online role-playing horror game called "The World's Fair Challenge." Others document the disturbing changes happening to their bodies as their games go on, and Casey's experience is no different. With only a mysterious man named JLB (Michael J. Rogers), whose identity is filtered through Skype calls and a creepy profile photo, as her guide, Casey has to figure out what's happening to her before the game consumes her.
I'd say that's what the movie's about, but nah, motherfuckers, this ain't your regular horror movie. This is the Wild West of the Internet.

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