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Pitt's Patois
Pitt's Patois

Meet Joe Black was a box office flub back in the late 1990s. But the three hour fantasy-romance movie isn’t all bad and like other cult classics like The Room, is so confidently ridiculous at times, you won't soon forget it.

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The Way It Is
The Way It Is

Netflix’s Two Distant Strangers has been plugged as the Groundhog Day for black Americans, but does not allow for the rich possibility that the time loop genre usually affords.

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Punxsutawney Springs
Punxsutawney Springs

Hulu’s new Groundhog Day-inspired Palm Springs mixes sci-fi and rom-com, proving much more successful when it puts its rom-com elements first.

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Mining Tension
Mining Tension

The Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems might be Adam Sandler’s finest performance. The anxiety-inducing ride about a New York jeweler mines tension for all its worth. But does it go overboard?

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