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Hotel Transylvania
{4/5} “He’s not talking to you. First you tell us humans are bad, now they’re good, what else? Up is down, cold is hot, gremlins don’t smell.” Hotel Transylvania, released in 2012 Dracula runs a hotel for monsters, a place where they can be safe from bloodthirsty humans. Dracula wants to keep his daughter Mavis […]
Beautiful Lies
{4/5} Beautiful Lies, released in 2010 Emilie runs a hair salon. She receives an anonymous love letter — unbeknownst to her it’s from Jean, who works for her. Emilie is not interested in the letter for herself but decides to send it to her mom to cheer her up. It’s about mistaken identities. Anyone that […]
Liberal Arts
{4.5/5} “I sometimes feel like I’m looking down on myself. Like there’s this older, wiser me watching over this 19-year-old rough draft, who’s full of all this potential, but has to live more to catch up with that other self somehow. And, uh, I know I’ll get there. It’s just sometimes I think I want […]
Adult World
{4/5} “That’s good. Continue to fail. If you want to make art, you have to fail. And so, the hardest job is to fail better.” Adult World, released in 2013 Amy has graduated from college — she majored in poetry. She’s an adult now, so she has to find a job. She’s trying to sell […]
Despicable Me
{5/5} “When we got adopted by a bald guy, I thought this would be more like Annie.” Despicable Me, released in 2010 Gru is a supervillain whose nemesis Vector has stolen the Great Pyramid — so he decides to steal the Moon. Gru adopts three little girls so they can get inside Vector’s compound by […]
Barefoot
{4.5/5} “‘Why can’t we just fly back on the plane?’ ‘Because I violated my probation and you’re an escaped mental patient.’” Barefoot aka The Wedding Guest, released in 2014 Although Jay’s family is rich, because of some bad decisions he’s stuck mopping floors at a mental hospital. That’s where he meets Daisy, who’s led an […]
Safe House
{4/5} “That house was a secure location. Whoever crashed it didn’t stop by a gas station and ask for directions to the nearest safe house. They were invited. Someone told them, Matthew. Think about it. Someone you know, so you better ask yourself, can you trust your landlord?” Safe House, released in 2012 Tobin used […]
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
{4.5/5} “The Secretary is dead. The President has invoked Ghost Protocol. We’re shut down. No satellite, safe house, support, or extraction. The four of us and the contents of this car are all that remains of the IMF.” Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, released in 2011 The Mission: Impossible team is disavowed after they’re blamed […]
Promised Land
{4.5/5} “We have nothing left to sell and we can’t afford to buy anything. You came here to help us. Offer us money… All we had to do to get it was be willing to scorch the earth under our feet.” Promised Land, released in 2012 Steve travels around making deals with landowners for drilling […]
The Missing
{4.5/5} “There’s an Apache story about a man that woke up one morning and saw a hawk on the wind. Walked outside and never returned. After he died he met his wife in the spirit world. She asked him why he never came home, he said ‘Well, the hawk kept flying.’” The Missing, released in […]