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This acronym means Seems Like Oscar Bait, which are movies that are only made to win awards, and are so high toned and off-putting that people are supposed to like them as opposed to actually liking them.

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Away We Go

Blue Valentine

Capitalism: A Love Story

The Company Men

Conviction

The Fighter

Five Minutes of Heaven

Good Night and Good Luck

Howl

Lost in Translation

Monster’s Ball

Moon

Mystic River

Never Let Me Go

Northfork

A Serious Man

Spellbound (2002)

Stop-Loss

Sugar

The Tree of Life

The Tillman Story

The Town

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Roadracers

By Adam Lippe

Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.

Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]

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On Cold Fish:

Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”

Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.