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Coco = The Little Death

Pixar succeeds in spite of Disney

You can be around 35 minutes late to see “Coco” if you want. No need to rush through the concessions line or have the grandparents hurry up and get out of the car, because there’s a secret waiting for you once you get into the theater: Every Pixar movie has a short animated film that […]

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Family Matters

“Lady Bird” soars across human nature

It’s easy to be nostalgic about the rotten moments in the past, since it’s clear we made it out alive. But regardless of how positive the present might be, there are still those smells and textures that put us back in a different place or time, one in which everything seemed infinite and the future […]

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Gory Gory, Hallelujah!

“Saw” returns with a bloody bang

Warning: Spoilers ahead. I  knew “Jigsaw” was the eighth film in the “Saw” franchise, of which I had only seen the first two. I was also aware of how the series was obsessed with its own continuity by not wasting any of its characters and tying all the films together with a deeply convoluted, impenetrable […]

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