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JACKIE - Not very good. Natalie Portman, who I usually like, annoyed me a lot by the end. Could've/should've gone a lot deeper.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA - Basically a literary short story (although it's actually an original script). Little plot, jumbled timeline, elliptical ending. Casey is really, really is good in this.
MOONLIGHT - Touching, boring, beautiful. The beginning was great; I really felt I was in this Miami beach neighborhood. The Artiness of the thing was a drag, I thought.
HIDDEN FIGURES - Sappy, corny, sugary. But darn it. That ending really does grab the heartstrings.
FENCES - Filmed theater. Expertly crafted on every level. Very boring as a film; riveting as theater. I had to take an intermission.
ARRIVAL - About 90% of this is a great, potentially classic sci-fi film for those of us who generally don't like sci-fi. But there's about 10% that kind of annoyed me. Plus Amy Adams has an odd nose.
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