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Suzume - 7.5/10. Oh yeah. Suzume is so much better than both Your Name and Weathering With You, IMHO. Yeah, it still has the typical hangups of a Shinkai movie: An overly ambitious plot that doesn't always make sense, a shallow romance between its two leads, and not fleshing out its characters...

American History X - 5.5/10. Ah yes, this movie about a guy's transformation into a Neo-Nazi and later reformation. The acting and production values were great, the movie pulls no punches in showing how bad Nazism is, and I liked the use of monochrome during the flashback sequences. But that's...

Goodbye Don Glees! - 7/10. For the most part, this is a pretty fun, wholesome slice-of-life adventure about a trio of boys trying to find a drone in the countryside. I love the characters and the animation is great. But the soundtrack grated a bit, and the final act suffers from being very...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985) - 8/10. For Rankin-Bass' very last stop motion special, it's amazing to see how far they've come in perfecting their Animagic style, and this has to be one of their most ambitious and creative efforts yet. The characters were charming, the stop...

Jane Eyre (1970 version) - 8/10. This was a pretty good adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel, all things considered. It's a shame this movie will never get a remaster due to the original masters being lost, so the only version available is one on Amazon Prime that looks like it was ripped off...

All That Heaven Allows - 8/10. Surprisingly, I liked this. Movies like this aren't normally my cup of tea, especially romance ones like this, but after learning it's meant to be a deconstruction of 1950s values and attacking the ridiculously strict rules women had to adhere to, I find I like it...

The Gold Diggers of 1933 - 7.5/10. Actually pretty good, surprisingly enough. All the songs were catchy and fun, and while the narrative was kind of weak and some of the drama a little dumb, even the company that made this and other movies after this were pretty upfront about it. Plus, with it...

American Beauty - 2/10. This sucked. The whole movie is literally just a middle-aged, married man lusting over a teenage girl just because he's butthurt about how his life turned out and is unnecessarily cruel to his family. None of the other characters are likeable either save for Jane, and do...

The Final - 1/10. Dear lord, this movie was just bad. A nonsensical, overly edgy plot, deplorable characters, idiotic writing decisions all around, and is straight up torture porn. Also, what the hell is Lindsay Seidel doing here?! Was this where she got her start?! It's a good thing she...

1, 2, 3, All Eyes On Me - 3/10. Man, this short film was just BAAAD. I would have rated this so much higher if the short didn't seem intent on breaking absolutely every cardinal rule when it came to dealing with a school shooting! Seriously, I've seen Lifetime movies deal with the subject with...

Love Thy Neighbor - 7.5/10. This was fine. I remember watching this years ago, and liked it back then. I still do now, though some subplots it throws in feel really contrived and pointless. Eh, it's nothing special, but it's still better than most old Lifetime movies I've seen. Boyz n the Hood...

Teacher (2019) - 6.5/10. This was...okay. Typical thriller stuff, and it's not exactly the most nuanced tackling of bullying. I did think the twist with the bully was really forced and I saw it coming from a mile away. I did find myself feeling genuinely sympathetic to the titular teacher, and...

David - 6/10. A movie about David Rothenberg (now known as Dave Dave), whose mentally unstable father set him on fire. This movie would have been great if it wasn't so cheesy, namely the cheesy music and the Rothenberg actors' voices being utterly painful to listen to. David's squeaking and his...

The Indian In the Cupboard - 6.5/10. Meh, not one of the better kids movies out there. I liked the concept, and Omri's character development throughout the movie is nice, but it never explains how and why the cupboard is magical, a lot of the acting was really cheesy, the camera never seems to...

Watched a bunch of movies on Tubi TV. Mainly old Lifetime movies (And by that I mean 90s and early 2000s old). David's Mother - 4.5/10. Oh yay, another cheesy ableist movie about a mother taking care of her disabled son and whining about how he's ruined her and everybody else's lives when she's...

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In The Time of the Butterflies - 7.5/10. Surprisingly good by TV movie standards. The conflict was compelling, the pacing was brisk but knew when to slow down when needed, and the movie definitely sold me on Trujillo's villainy and managed to make him not feel like a SatAM cartoon villain...

Kidnapped By a Classmate - 6.5/10. It's...average, at best. It's fairly fine, even if it's a stock kidnapping plot. I do appreciate that the movie actually showed a healthy relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter, though I wish the side characters had been fleshed out more. But...

Ruby Bridges - 9.5/10. I have to admit, I'm surprised at how good this turned out to be, even more so that Disney of all companies not only made this, but didn't try to dumb it down or sugarcoat or gloss over the racism that was common during the time period. Everything about this movie was just...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - 7.5/10. Eh, this one's okay, but not gonna lie, it really didn't age well. The characters except for Charlie and Wonka are one-note, you can tell the movie's props were made on a low budget, the Oompa-Loompas were little more than props used to espouse...