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Every film reviewed where the entire Now Playing Podcast panel gave it a passing grade — zero red arrows, at least three green.

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A Fistful of Dollars

Donate and enjoy a plate of Spaghetti Westerns with extra...

Reviewed Mar 22, 2019
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit. Genres: Western
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Anyone can wear the mask? Tell that to Andrew Garfield. N...

Reviewed Dec 18, 2018
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension. Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction
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Ralph Breaks the Internet

I’m gonna Rick it!

Reviewed Nov 27, 2018
Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet — the netizens — to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube. Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
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Wreck-It Ralph

I’m bad, and that’s good. I will never be good…but ...

Reviewed Nov 20, 2018
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph escapes his game and lands in Hero's Duty, a first-person shooter where he helps the game's hero battle against alien invaders. He later enters Sugar Rush, a kart racing game set on tracks made of candies, cookies and other sweets. There, Ralph meets Vanellope von Schweetz who has learned that her game is faced with a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade, and one that Ralph may have inadvertently started. Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Sea of Love

Roses are red / Violets are blue / If you date Pacino / H...

Reviewed Jul 27, 2018
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects. Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance
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Need for Speed

We like the car, the cars that go BOOM!

Reviewed Jul 24, 2018
The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Scarface

Make way for the bad guy!

Reviewed Jul 20, 2018
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
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