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Onward
The premise of Onward makes it sound like a routine family movie. However, Pixar, as usual, spins it into something different.

Ben Pivoz
Mar 7, 2020


Weathering with You
Stretches work so well they make up for the parts that do not. The narrative is not quite as strong as the characters or animation, yet it i

Ben Pivoz
Jan 17, 2020


Pokémon Detective Pikachu
The buddy comedy is the heart of the movie. It is funny without pandering to family audiences or ever becoming too adult for kids. This is n

Ben Pivoz
May 10, 2019


How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
By the end, I cared about his journey. That is impressive since I was not exactly looking forward to seeing this. However, the series treats

Ben Pivoz
Feb 27, 2019


The Kid Who Would Be King
The way it parallels the story is clever, if obvious. However, the emphasis is on the characters, not the mythology. It builds on the origin

Ben Pivoz
Jan 25, 2019


Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald suffers from a lot of the problems of being the second part of a planned pentalogy as well as th

Ben Pivoz
Nov 17, 2018


The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
A visually impressive movie with a story that makes even the most amazing sights boring after a while. It is yet another tale about a teenag

Ben Pivoz
Nov 2, 2018


A Wrinkle in Time
Somehow none of this comes off nearly as exciting as it sounds. There is a lot going on, but not much of it connects. There is a lot of tale

Ben Pivoz
Mar 14, 2018


Monster Hunt 2
There is so much story and so many characters that, eventually, I stopped trying to make sense of everything and just went along with the am

Ben Pivoz
Feb 18, 2018


Mary and the Witch's Flower
The animation has a fairytale quality to it. It seems like there is something magical going on even in the most mundane of moments. It is ve

Ben Pivoz
Jan 21, 2018
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