Keyword: cynical
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
If you’ve never given Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb a fair shot, 1964 is as good a year as any to fix that — Stanley Kubrick’s film has aged into something like a cult favorite. You can tell a lot about a movie from its tagline, and…
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Legally Blonde
If you have been putting off “Legally Blonde” since 2001, this is your sign to finally move it to the top of the queue. It does not take long to understand why people keep bringing it up. “Boldly going where no blonde has gone.” That is the tagline, and it does a surprisingly honest job…
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Gone Girl
Few things separate a forgettable night of scrolling from a night you actually remember, and “Gone Girl” (2014) lands firmly in the second camp for a specific kind of viewer. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “You don’t know…