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50 Critics: Norbit
The 2007 comedy Norbit is Eddie Murphy’s hilarious return to multi-personality comedies of his earlier films like The Nutty Professor and Coming to America. In Norbit Eddie Murphy plays a lifelong passive nerd who goes on a journey of standing up for himself once he has found his true love.
By Joe Patterson2 years ago in Critique
Aphex Twin I care because You do
New fresh modern out-of-this-world shaping the future of the sound bringing the new all around another dimension has just arrived
By Darkos2 years ago in Critique
A Critique of The Ex
Visually appealing, however, the content swiftly proves mediocre at best. Accommodating a substantial lack of originality, with predictable plot twists, awful character development, and a final act that will leave even the most easily pleased with a sour taste in their mouths. A complete unadulterated disappointment. Avoid at all costs.
By Sian N. Clutton2 years ago in Critique
A Slice of Twin Peaks
Who killed Laura Palmer? The owls are not what they seem. Agent Cooper bleeds in the Great Northern, Room 315. In the Red Room, Laura talks backwards and the Arm dances.
By Steve Murphy2 years ago in Critique
War and Peace - Critique
Humans’ search for meaning, All is futile, One can’t fight history, Napoleonic wars, Chronicling two decades, Pierre’s profound quest,
By Grz Colm2 years ago in Critique
IDOL
THE IDOL IS AN HISTORICALLY GREAT TELEVISION EVENT, crowning achievements everywhere. It unites the most dreadful writing, directing and acting ever witnessed on Earth with a signature song (World Class Sinner) that achieves this miracle: A beautiful woman singing about kinky sex being a crushingly boring event.
By ADP2 years ago in Critique
Skinamarink
If you are looking to waste two hours staring at a black screen waiting for something to happen, then this is the movie for you. The directors attempt at psychological terror fails from the very first dark screen. See "Barbie" instead and get a few laughs with her and Ken.
By Barbara Gode Wiles2 years ago in Critique
A Defense of New Moon
New Moon is a harrowing depiction of an insecure girl suffering from depression. Whether or not we agree with why Bella is depressed, Meyer captures her internal turmoil perfectly. The book is lacking as a romance and it's definitely not a feminist masterpiece, but it is a fascinating psychological study.
By C.M. Vazquez2 years ago in Critique
A Christmas Carol (Critique)
Iconic, picturesque and spooky. A nauseatingly sentimental promotion of crass consumerism. Scrooge has no arc; he's just moved by terror from one extreme view to the opposite. His motivation is corrupt. Still a terrible person, but now buys love with generosity.
By L.C. Schäfer2 years ago in Critique
"I'm in a world of shit, yes, but I'm alive and I'm not afraid." -Joker
Kubrick relentlessly showcases human horrors, however brutal, Never turning the camera away once. Internal fears of failure of a jelly donut hidden, to destroy a whole Marine outfit
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Critique
Critique: 2001 A Space Odyssey
Deep mysteries, unsolved, lie below the surface of the film. Black rectangles repeated at scale through time, with the exact dimensions of an obscure movie screen and a dollar bill. A hand touches the screen, and a human is reborn as something new, outside the Earth. What did Kubrick know?
By Big Dreams2 years ago in Critique
Being on Top its not what gives You happiness
Sometimes it takes one minute or even two. Sometimes it takes years or months to finally find the right spot amidst the criticism of others about you. And how does it actually devalue the worth of everything that we do?
By Darkos2 years ago in Critique