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Movie Review: Dune part two

By Jack Silbert on March 24, 2024

4 stars out of 5 As stated in my previous review on here, I had skipped a chance to see Dune: Part Two because it seemed like too much work. Though I mostly liked the first installment, it was long, dusty, and complicated. Was I ready to sign up for more? Well, this past Thursday, […]

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Movie Review: The French Dispatch

By Jack Silbert on November 9, 2021

4.5 stars out of 5Or maybe 4 out of 5, but, somewhere in there. As I’ve said a number of times, there are a handful of directors that I am absolutely crazy about, and Wes Anderson is one of them. Perhaps I’m too soft on them or perhaps I hold them to too high a […]

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Movie Review: Dune

By Jack Silbert on November 3, 2021

3.5 stars out of 5Never read Dune, never watched Dune. In middle school it seemed like a lot of dudes were reading it. Not. And even though I loved Sting and later, David Lynch, no interest in the movie. Decades went by, and finally I decided to check out the reboot — in a theater […]

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Movie Review: A Rainy Day in New York

By Jack Silbert on July 4, 2021

4 stars out of 5 I generally don’t review movies that are on streaming services (in this case, Amazon Prime Video), but I did not have the option of watching A Rainy Day in New York in a theater. What is this, Communist Russia?!? Now, there are those who will dismiss out of hand anything […]

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