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Everest movie review: peak experience

Mon, Sep 14, 2015
1 comment

A spectacular, heart-stopping adventure that has you catching your breath and gasping in shock. See it in IMAX 3D for an enrapturing you-are-there feeling.

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Jurassic World movie review: lack of humility before blockbusters

Thu, Jun 11, 2015
63 comments

I am the prime demographic for this movie, and I found it only sort of inoffensively blah. Chris Pratt: He’s no Jeff Goldblum.

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San Andreas movie review: 9.6 on the Ridiculous Scale

Thu, May 28, 2015
11 comments

Cornball disaster-porn melodrama… in 3D! Dumb, insulting, and bloodless. It’s Hollywood’s subconscious death wish brought to life, in more ways than one.

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Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs movie review: dino crock

Tue, May 19, 2015
24 comments

If you guessed that this is a cheap pre-Jurassic World cash-in, congratulations: you are smarter than this padded-out pile of cut-rate cinematic junk.

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Two by Two: Ooops… The Ark Has Gone (aka Two by Two: God’s Little Creatures, aka All Creatures Big and Small) movie review: global apocalypse, you know, for kids

Fri, May 01, 2015
21 comments

This spectacularly ill-conceived movie is what happens when a cheap ripoff cannot even rise to the level of crass Hollywood junk.

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Exodus: Gods and Kings movie review: whites only

Wed, Jan 21, 2015
74 comments

Simultaneously the dullest and the most insulting version of itself it could possibly be. If only it had managed to be campy, that’d be something…

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies movie review: there and back again… at last

Wed, Dec 10, 2014
75 comments

I fear that Peter Jackson has been suffering from a similar affliction to the dwarf king’s “dragon sickness”: a compulsive lust for epicness.

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Interstellar movie review: trading worry for wonder

Fri, Oct 31, 2014
82 comments

Thrilling intellectually and viscerally, full of stirring notions of what humanity is capable of, and full of hope. A wonderfully refreshing sort of SF.

| 82 Comments

Into the Storm movie review: all wet

Fri, Aug 22, 2014
7 comments

A movie to make you despair of the found-footage conceit (if you weren’t already). Suddenly Twister looks like Shakespeare.

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Coherence movie review: night out of mind

Fri, Jun 20, 2014
7 comments

Deploys twisty sci-fi concepts to warp the almost-clichéd dinner-party soap opera into a horror story of the human condition in the face of quantum philosophy.

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