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Finding Nemo (2003) Review

Finding Nemo is one of the foundational documents of Pixar's golden era and one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century. Stanton would subsequently direct WALL-E in 2008, Finding Dory in 2016, and various other major…

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Finding Dory (2016) Review

Finding Dory is one of the more substantive Pixar sequels and one of the more thoughtful contemporary animated productions about cognitive disability. The substantial gap between productions reflected Pixar's broader sequel discipline during the period.

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Fargo (FX Series, 2014-present) Review

Fargo is one of the best television series of the past fifteen years and one of the most creatively ambitious anthology productions in American television. Five seasons have aired across the past decade with additional seasons in development.

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Fargo (1996) Review

Fargo is one of the best American films of the 1990s and one of the most distinctive achievements in the Coen Brothers filmography. The two cowrote the screenplay.

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Fantasia (1940) Review

Fantasia is one of the great animated films in cinema history and one of the foundational documents of the entire American animation tradition. The film consists of eight animated segments set to classical music compositions.

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Dumbo (1941 / 2019), Contrast Review

The Dumbo property exists in two substantial Disney adaptations across nearly eighty years. The 1941 animated production is one of the great classical Disney achievements and the production that financially saved Disney following the substantial commercial disappointment of Fantasia.

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Destination Wedding (2018) Review

The film operates as substantial two-hander production featuring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder as basically the only significant on-screen presences across the runtime. Frank Crawley and Lindsay Hartway are middle-aged single travelers who meet at the small regional airport in…

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Dark Star (1974) Review

Carpenter and O'Bannon were graduate students. The film follows the crew of the deep space scout ship Dark Star during the twenty-second year of their mission.

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Chicken Run (2000) Review

Chicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.

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