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The Silence movie review: I have only the faintest of muted praise

Tue, Apr 23, 2019
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Not a knockoff of that other quiet horror flick, though this familiar monster movie works hard to convince otherwise. But the terrific cast makes it worth a look, at least for Netflix subscribers.

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Us movie review: a new kind of horror for a newly precarious world

Wed, Mar 20, 2019
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An anxious moan, a looming disquiet of a reckoning coming for America. This is horror as weird, funny, damning, and more disconcerting the more you think about it, finding fear right in front of us.

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Doctor Who: “Logopolis” Fathom Event review: it’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for

Wed, Mar 06, 2019
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An iconic story from the classic era of the British cult TV favorite comes to US big screens for one night only… and the cleaned-up FX as well as its deceptively simple tale hold up rather well.

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Anna and the Apocalypse movie review: it shuffles along like the undead

Wed, Dec 05, 2018
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A zombie musical comedy set at Christmas should be a can’t-miss. But this one isn’t scary or funny; its characters are one-note, and the whole shebang — blah songs included — is emotionally flat.

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Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary review: America is burning (LFF 2018)

Tue, Oct 23, 2018
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In his latest righteous broadside, Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump as but a symptom of the political rot in the United States. Upsetting, enraging, exhausting… which is just as it should be.

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie review: back to Isla Nublar… again

Thu, Jun 07, 2018
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Hollywood finds a way. To keep telling the same stories over and over again, that is. There’s too much going on in Fallen Kingdom, and yet somehow not enough, either. Still: dinosaurs!

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Rampage movie review: American kaiju

Fri, Apr 13, 2018
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Raises the bar on big dumb fun, with The Rock’s social-justice-warrior badass and his genuinely charming relationship with a gorilla, plus a ton of goofball sci-fi monster action turned up to 11.

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The Hurricane Heist movie review: ’tis an ill wind that blows no minds

Thu, Apr 05, 2018
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A peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate movie, this Die Hard meets Twister monster is so ludicrous it comes all the way back around to being awesome and hilarious.

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Pacific Rim: Uprising movie review: robot smash

Mon, Mar 26, 2018
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Enormously likable characters make this feel like a big friendly rambunctious dog that you can’t help but get a kick out of, but it fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of its predecessor movie.

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Attraction (Prityazhenie) movie review: when ET is dreamy

Fri, Jan 19, 2018
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It has a spectacular opening sequence, and features a few minor tweaks to alien-invasion tropes. But the teen romance at its center reduces this to a very inconsequential first contact.

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