Eephus (2024)
100%
“Eephus luxuriates in an unhurried afternoon of leisure.” –
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Mar 8, 2025
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The Straight Story (1999)
95%
“When the movie’s end arrives, it’s a scene of cosmic beauty, accompanied by Angelo Badalamenti’s ethereal score—pure cinematic liftoff, a triumph of writing, direction, acting, casting, all the things that make a movie take flight.” –
Slate
Jan 21, 2025
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Inside Out 2 (2024)
91%
“Anxiety might not be pleasant, but as Inside Out 2 will remind both teenagers and their parents, that doesn’t make it any less essential a part of growing up.” –
Slate
Jun 14, 2024
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Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023)
42%
“I don’t know how long the boys can keep tapping the well of their surreal imaginations before they become exhausting. But I do know that The Treasure of Foggy Mountain made me laugh so hard I missed a number of jokes.” –
Slate
Nov 17, 2023
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Elemental (2023)
73%
“It’s dispiriting to see a movie that so clearly represents all that Pixar once did better than anyone else turn out so middle-of-the-road.” –
Slate
Jun 14, 2023
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Soul (2020)
95%
“Soul feels, in the end, like a worthwhile Pixar experiment.” –
Slate
Dec 14, 2020
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Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
99%
“Dick Johnson Is Dead is a testament to the power of talking forthrightly about death with those you love. It shows how death may never lose its power, exactly, but you can make yourselves partners in the process, not victims of it.” –
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Sep 30, 2020
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Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
100%
“Behold, the show's Interesting Character-inator: When killjoy Candace gets to be the center of a story, she's just as brave, resourceful, and funny as her little brothers have always been.” –
Slate
Aug 25, 2020
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Weathering With You (2019)
93%
“I loved Your Name, even as I recognized I was not the ideal target audience for it, and that's why I watched Weathering With You with that ideal target audience: a gaggle of teens.” –
Slate
Jan 16, 2020
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High Flying Bird (2019)
91%
“Like Ray, Soderbergh plays the game while also undermining it. Like Ray, High Flying Bird is a revolutionary wearing a beautiful suit.” –
Slate
Feb 7, 2019
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
36%
“Congratulations to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald for being the first flat-out terrible product of the Harry Potter expanded universe.” –
Slate
Nov 15, 2018
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Moana (2016)
95%
“If its heroine, despite her spunkiness, is a little milquetoasty, at least she doesn't pine for a guy-though how dumb is it that in 2016 we still have to compliment a kids' movie for that?” –
Slate
Nov 21, 2016
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
74%
“This is the first time that David Yates-who directed the final four movies in the Potter series-has been defeated while dueling his wizardly material.” –
Slate
Nov 17, 2016
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Mascots (2016)
48%
“Mascots is determinedly minor-league. But like the bruschetta- and anchovy-scented cups sold at the event for male mascots to stuff into their costumes, it's offbeat and refreshing nonetheless.” –
Slate
Oct 13, 2016
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Pete's Dragon (2016)
88%
“Pete's Dragon is a gentle, understated family adventure, one that feels notably unlike the simplistically sentimental product the Disney imprimatur might lead you to expect.” –
Slate
Aug 12, 2016
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Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
87%
“I worried I'd be disappointed by Everybody Wants Some!!, even though one of my favorite directors made it. But I loved it.” –
Slate
Mar 31, 2016
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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
76%
“I didn't love everything about The Good Dinosaur, but I loved visiting the world Pixar made.” –
Slate
Nov 25, 2015
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The Peanuts Movie (2015)
87%
“Most of The Peanuts Movie is very funny indeed.” –
Slate
Nov 5, 2015
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
88%
“I can't say that this austere, beautiful movie satisfied my impatient desire for answers. (It seems, in fact, to be a rebuttal to that desire.) But I'll be thinking about Kumiko's journey for a long time.” –
Slate
Mar 20, 2015
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Paddington (2014)
96%
“Paddington is a wonder: warm, gentle, well-acted, funny without being stupid.” –
Slate
Jan 17, 2015
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The Rover (2014)
67%
“Blood is spilled, as is to be expected in a film that explores a world on the brink of ruin, but each death echoes through the story the way the hero's gunshots echo across the Outback.” –
Slate
Jun 12, 2014
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Under the Skin (2013)
83%
“I was willing to watch more to discover what was underneath the surface. Once I found out, I was frozen in place, and then Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Glazer had their way with me.” –
Slate
Apr 4, 2014
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Frozen (2013)
89%
“The movie is like an ice cube that's started melting from the inside: sharp and bracing around the edges, but hollow at the center.” –
Slate
Nov 26, 2013
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
62%
“What impressed me again and again is how unflappably polite Americans can be.” –
Slate
Oct 25, 2013
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Escape From Tomorrow (2013)
57%
“[A] creepy, inventive, nearly successful little movie ...” –
Slate
Oct 11, 2013
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