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3 Stars

The Social Reckoning (2026)

When discussing the best films of the 21st century, there seems to be a near-universal consensus that 2010’s The Social Network must always be in the conversation.

While certainly a great movie (and comparatively better than The King’s Speech, which it lost Best Picture to), there is still this small voice in my brain thinking that it may be just a tad over hyped at times. When I did my list of the 100 best films of the 2010s, I had it at number 67 (6 7?! That was not planned). That placement is one of many of the absurdities of the list when I look back, but I still feel there are, simply put, better films that came out this century.

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3 1/2 Stars

Scream (2022)

Being that I saw the original Scream around the ripe age of 11 or so (it was all the hype in fourth grade), it took me some time to understand the “meta” aspect of the film.

Eventually (after seeing Scream 2, the only sequel I would see until now), I would get the references in the original as I would have seen most of the movies the characters have talked about. Thankfully, one does not need to see any of the other sequels to understand the newest Scream film (technically, “Scream 5”).