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The problems here, I think, are weirdly simple. The movie takes our knowledge and our interest in the material for granted. It zips from one number to another, throwing a ton of frenetically edited eye candy at the screen, charmlessly. "Be Our Guest" is nothing but visual noise. Too often we're watching highly qualified performers, plus a few less conspicuously talented ones stuck doing karaoke, or motion-capture work of middling quality. The movie feels like a matinee of the second national tour of Disney's stage edition of "Beauty and the Beast," somewhere around the 300th performance.

The Kids Are All Right is the easiest film to love I've seen all year.

[Moonlight (2016)] I am worried that hype will really hurt this film.

Number one on my list is the small Irish film "Once." I selected this as the best film of the year because it's the one that left me feeling like a million bucks.