Based on true events, Channing Tatum stars as former soldier turned thief Jeffrey Manchester who robbed over 40 McDonald’s before being sent to prison only to escape and hide out for months inside a Toys”R”Us. Fairly early on in the film someone describes Manchester as both a genius in seeing and understanding the world and a complete idiot in terms of lacking basic common sense, and the theme of Roofman is exploring that idea.
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Originally intended to be slightly edgier teenage fair until the studio decided to make it more fan friendly during production in order to cash-in on promotional tie-ins, 1998’s Small Soldiers became a mix of those two concepts leading to a lukewarm reaction by both critics and moviegoers. You can certainly see director Joe Dante struggling to serve both masters, especially given how much of the film was shot prior to the imposed change in direction.
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Hayao Miyazaki‘s Studio Ghibli coming of age film offers the story of a young witch named Kiki (Minami Takayama | Kirsten Dunst) who sets off with her talking black cat Jiji (Rei Sakuma | Phil Hartman) to a new town for a year of learning to be a witch away from her family. Kiki settles on a large seaside community where she struggles to fit in until helping a baker (Keiko Toda | Tress MacNeille) and discovering how she can put her broom flying to use across the city.
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2024 wasn’t as top-heavy as some years, but there was a wide variety of good movies. Here’s a look back at my favorites from those movies I was lucky enough to view this year. Despite my best efforts there will always be some not included here if access was limited, the film wasn’t released in time for review before the end of 2024, the film wasn’t made available for awards consideration, or I simply ran out of time. Likely some of those other films you’ll see reviews for later in 2025 but they are not in consideration here. Here then, is my list of the best movies of 2024.
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With Sony’s rerelease each of the Spider-Man movies, we turn back to the clock two decades to 2004 and the film that set the standard for a live-action Spider-Man movie which swings back into theaters this Monday. Returning all the notable stars from the first film (including both Willem Dafoe and Cliff Robertson in a pair of questionable cameos), the sequel focuses on the toll Spider-Man has caused on Peter Parker‘s (Tobey Maguire) life.
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