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F1: The Movie

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  • Title: F1: The Movie
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A good racing movie can be an awfully fun time at the movies. While not a great film, F1 sticks to the basic formula giving us a gritty old veteran with something to prove, a hotshot rookie who hasn’t broken through, and a racing team outgunned and outmatched that desperately needs a miracle win. F1 may put the formulaic in Formula One, but there’s a reason the formula works as director Joseph Kosinski fits these pieces (and some darn good looking racing sequences – particularly in IMAX) into just the kind of fun summer movie I was hoping for and would make a fun pairing with something like Ford v Ferrari for a racing double-feature which ultimately has something similar to say about racing and the crazy fools who do it for a living.

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Materialists

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  • Title: Materialists
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I had some trepidation walking into writer/director Celine Song‘s Materialists. On one hand, Song provided my favorite film of 2023. On the other hand, the set up of a beautiful matchmaker, starring my least-favorite mainstream actress, who just can’t seem to find her own Mr. Right, sounded like the kind of bargain-basement romcom that would normally make me want to run quickly in the opposite direction. Thankfully, that’s not what Materialists turns out to be. However, what we do get is only somewhat more successful.

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The Unholy Trinity

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  • Title: The Unholy Trinity
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Set in the late 19th Century, the town of Trinity is presented to us through the unassuming eyes of Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) who has just watched his estranged father (Tim Daly) hung for a crime he didn’t commit. Trinity is your typical Old West town with raucous inhabitants, a sheriff struggling to keep order, and justice often coming from the end of a rope or a gun. Mistaking the current sheriff for the one who framed his father, Henry has a run-in with Gabriel Dove (Pierce Brosnan), although the misunderstanding is quicky resolved. 

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How to Train Your CGI Dragon

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  • Title: How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
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If it’s good enough for Disney, I guess. From a filmmaking feat answering the question of can we make a live-action remake (featuring a hell of a lot of CGI) of an animated movie, the existence of the new How to Train Your Dragon makes sense. Outside of that, I’m not really sure what we’re doing here. Much like the vast majority of Disney’s remakes, DreamWorks’ first attempt delivers a fine, if less slightly less magical, version of the original.

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Ballerina

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  • Title: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
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Set in the world of John Wick, Ana de Armas stars as our titular ballerina who becomes part of the Ruska Roma following the death of her father. After a rough opening 20-25 minutes setting up her origin story and early days training, things finally get going with Eve‘s first assignment in a night club before jumping ahead a few months as the seasoned killer gets her first lead and becomes distracted tracking down those responsible for her family’s death. her journey will lead her into conflict with a cult of assassins, the Ruska Roma, and eventually even John Wick (Keanu Reeves).

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