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For a comedy about kinky sex, I Want Your Sex is surprisingly insightful and complex.

As a movie about a summer in Cape Cod—including allusions to Jaws and the stagnating 1970s—Tony is perfectly executed, wildly captivating, and entertaining. As a movie to give insight into a famed but tragic celebrity, Tony is really no better than a few bites of something great that leave you hungry and perhaps even hangry.

For a movie with such an optimistic title as Brand New Day, the fourth Spider-Man is overstuffed with a lot of intriguing ideas that never get the chance to grow into anything new or surprising.

As original and thematically thrilling as it might be to see Nolan come to this conclusion for his protagonist, his omission of the mythological approach to the overall film is a massive letdown for anyone who is a fan of the original source text or even just a fan of Wilson’s rendition.

Like a crisp breeze on a warm summer night, across its brief runtime Drunken Noodles evokes a gay, metropolitan ennui that could be dismissed as trite musings if not for director Lucio Castro’s deft hand behind the camera, both with his frame and his performers.

This is probably the best of the franchise not to carry Raimi’s name as director (though he serves as a producer) because of how it locates its own sense of ingenuity and worthwhile homage.

The remake of Moana is just a shameless attempt to make the accountants at Disney happy by using nostalgia to get audiences to buy tickets. There’s only one problem with that ploy: there hasn’t even been enough time for the original, as excellent as it is, to calcify into a widely-recognized source of cultural longing for yesterday.

Minions & Monsters is filled with lighthearted, disordered caricatures and lampoons of dozens of films from the Golden Age and earlier, all dispersed without much rhyme or reason other than adhering to the movie’s theme.

Iron Boy is a timeless tale that pinpoints the very nature of humans to desire meaning and embrace individuality. It remains the most compelling animated film of the year sure to resonate with and entertain the entire family.

Where Girls Like Girls stumbles is in its loftier emotional goals. It can’t reach the true heart-wrenching drama it seeks to extract from Coley’s familial tragedy nor her pain with the middle chapter of this relationship. Yet, there’s a real sweetness to the movie that acts as a summer balm.