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Review

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

by David Jenkins

Benoit Blanc enters the canon of icon­ic movie char­ac­ters with Rian Johnson’s sec­ond for­ay into who­dunit (nu-dunit?) territory.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Knives Out

by David Jenkins

Rian John­son does his best Agatha Christie impres­sion in this riotous, star-packed homage to the clas­sic whodunnit.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

by Hannah Strong

Rian John­son serves up the most spec­tac­u­lar, emo­tion­al and weird­est Star Wars film to date.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Looper

by Matt Bochenski

Meet Loop­er, by a coun­try mile the most resource­ful, viva­cious and sav­age sci­ence fic­tion movie of 2012.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Brothers Bloom

by Adam Woodward

As Rian Johnson’s dif­fi­cult sec­ond album, The Broth­ers Bloom is more an anti-cli­max than a letdown.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect