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Aardvark (2018)

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Josh (Quinto), a troubled man who has lived in the shadow of his brother for so long he starts...

LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Baby Driver (2017) in Movies

Feb 1, 2022

Baby Driver (2017)

2017 | Action, Comedy

8.2

(159 Ratings)

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Baby Driver is a fun and relatively low-stakes crime caper that seems to exist. purely for the ride. It's underwhelming pay off is forgivable considering everything else that's on the table, from Edgar Wrights signature sense of style, to its exciting action pieces, to a tight display of well crafted needle drops. The bottom line is - any film that features Jon Hamm psychotically firing a machine gun in perfect rhythm with Hocus Pocus by Focus deserves a round of applause.

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Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Million Dollar Arm (2014) in Movies

Aug 6, 2020

Million Dollar Arm (2014)

2014 | Comedy, Drama

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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Being a huge baseball fan, I was intrigued by the story of two hopeful cricket players being converted to America's pastime.

Jon Hamm is great as an American recruiter sent to India in an attempt to bolster his teams pitching prospect pipeline. Seemingly hopeless upon arrival, JB (Hamm) conducts a sort of makeshift tryout that brings interest from all over the area. A few potential candidates show enough promise to pursue, and teach the game of baseball.

The story that follows is quite amazing and very interesting. The follow up on the real life versions of the characters portrayed in the film shows just how accurate (of course some artistic value is added) the story is and what an exceptional reality those involved lived.

Great movie for any baseball fan or a fan of a feel good story that doesn't know boundaries.

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Sarah (7798 KP) rated Black Mirror - Season 2 in TV

Aug 28, 2017

This is by far the strongest and best series so far of Black Mirror. As always, each episode is a dark and intriguing tale of technology, social media and pop culture. The Waldo episode is probably the weakest out of the 4, but even that is still good. There's a fantastic cast with Domhall Gleeson, Hayley Atwell, Jon Hamm and Rafe Spall and some brilliant storylines. The Christmas episode is by far my favourite, and a welcome change to the usual sickeningly sweet Christmas shows.

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Beirut (2018)

5.8 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a...

action thriller

Tag (2018)

7.4 (68 Ratings) Rate It

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One month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running for a no-holds-barred...

comedy

The Jesus Rolls (2020)

2.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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The Jesus Rolls is an upcoming American crime comedy film written, directed, and starred by John...

Erika (17788 KP) rated Beirut (2018) in Movies

Apr 21, 2018

Beirut (2018)

2018 | Action, Thriller

5.8

(5 Ratings)

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So, this was billed as a 'taut political thriller'; I'm not sure about that. Maybe it's because I was comparing it to 7 Days in Entebbe the entire time.
Anyway, Jon Hamm plays Don Draper, sorry, I mean, Mason Skiles, who's an alcoholic (see, Don Draper), and is brought back to Beirut after a former friend is kidnapped.
It was a little predictable, I basically figured out the plot in the first 10 minutes, and I'm sure a non movie buff could do the same. It wasn't excellent, it was just good.