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Visual and auditory masterpiece with seriously flawed thematic decisions
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Drawing on difficult history to evaluate our challenging, idiosyncratic relationships
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Not the reinvention the superhero genre desperately needs
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The tragicomedy of America's urban underbelly in Baker's glossiest film yet
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A forgettable Fey failure, for what?
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Beauty can't save gross, derivative plotting
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The Professional as a Symbol (Holocaust in film, 1993-2023)
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Oldboy (2003)
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