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Great idea.

But: what I see there are not reviews, they're summaries. One-sentence reviews would be great, but a review should help me decide if I should see the movie, not summarize the plot. "Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day." is not useful to me at all.

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Ah hang on.

I see now that you do have reviews. The reviews should be front-and-center on the homepage (and make it simpler), NOT the summaries. I wouldn't even show the summaries, they just get in the way.

Overall, the design is slick but there's too much going on, conflicting with your goal of simplicity in 1-sentence reviews.

Thanks for this. I can't see the woods for the trees having worked on the site morning, noon and night so it's easy for me to miss these kinds of things. To me they seem obvious, but then they would since I implemented it. I'll be changing this very soon.

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