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An Appreciation of the Greats Who Guided Us Through Trivia, Tension, and Tacky Prizes In honor of the release of The Luckiest Man in America , a new movie about the infamous Press Your Luck  scandal from 1984—when ice cream truck driver Michael Larson cracked the code of the game’s spinning board and walked away with a record-breaking $110,000—I decided it was time to put together a list I've been wanting to do for a long time: my personal picks for the 20 greatest game show

My Film Critic pants are on, pressed, and ironed, and I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, April 4th, 2025. 1) A MINECRAFT MOVIE Movies based on video games have a long and storied history… of being terrible. I've said it before and I'll say it again: any movie that begins with "based on the popular video game" should come with a warning label — "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." And A Minecraft Movie , based on the