Little Women (2019)

One strategy to try and make Louisa May Alcott's obnoxious Little Women tolerable viewing for anyone who has already sat through the seven or eight other adaptations is to populate it with Hollywood's most affected performers and rip through the story at a relentless pace after throwing the scenes into the air and presenting them in the order you pick them up off the floor.

★★★☆☆

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The Circle (2017)

The subject matter is rich with thriller potential and timely given big data miners Facebook and Google are now privy to so much of our personal information - it is not hard to imagine this movie's world where individuals are encouraged by corporations to live completely transparent lives - but with an especially uncharismatic cast (Emma Watson and John Boyega are like automatons) delivering especially dull dialogue, the movie plays out with all the excitement of a tv community service announcement of a budget-constrained, alarmist organisation of Luddites.

★☆☆☆☆

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The Bling Ring (2013)

Sofia Coppola's movie based on a Vanity Fair article about a spate of celebrity home robberies that occurred across Calabasas, California in 2008, is a breezy work of 86 minutes that presents the thieves, a gang of petulant fame- and fashion-fixated high schoolers, in their own superficial light, as wilful narcissicists who rifle through celebrities' private homes and personal belongings in the same way they browse glossy magazines or click through the TMZ website.

★★★☆☆

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This Is The End (2013)

Some of Hollywood's most obnoxious personalities gather at James Franco's house for a party, and pretty soon the world decides to end rather than put up with another minute of their incessant shouting about drugs, semen, masturbation, and rape.

★★☆☆☆

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