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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part movie review: everything is still (mostly) awesome

Thu, Feb 07, 2019
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Our expectations are a lot higher now after the unexpectedly wildly inventive first movie… and this sequel delivers, digging with witty subversion into Hollywood’s glorification of its male heroes.

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First Man movie review: over the moon

Tue, Oct 09, 2018
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Damian Chazelle finds a dreamlike reverie amidst rocket-powered mechanical brawn. As wonderfully, nerve-wrackingly exhausting as it is movingly intimate.

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Ratchet & Clank movie review: wretched and junk

Thu, Apr 28, 2016
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Could have been assembled entirely from clips from other movies — mostly the Star Wars prequels — and would have been better if it had been.

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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
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The wonderfully weird, hilariously morbid “World of Tomorrow” crams in more disturbing, sinister science-fiction ideas than a decade’s worth of blockbusters.

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2015 Sundance Film Festival Award-Winning Shorts review: the best of the best

Wed, Jun 10, 2015
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The highlight is the absolutely astonishing “World of Tomorrow,” which crams in more SF ideas than you’ll find in a decade’s worth of summer blockbusters.

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Interstellar movie review: trading worry for wonder

Fri, Oct 31, 2014
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Thrilling intellectually and viscerally, full of stirring notions of what humanity is capable of, and full of hope. A wonderfully refreshing sort of SF.

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Lucy movie review: head case

Fri, Aug 22, 2014
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In this pile of adolescent heavy-metal-deep pseudo-sci-fi philosophy, the meaning of humanity depends on how “cool” something looks onscreen.

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the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]

Wed, Apr 30, 2014
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Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.

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The Lego Movie review: take the brick pill

Wed, Feb 12, 2014
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You’ve seen this all before — it’s Toy Story meets The Matrix — just not done in Legos.

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Oblivion movie review: Jetsons parody or Ikea commercial?

Fri, Apr 12, 2013
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Postcard-pretty, unusual for a science fiction flick, but shockingly derivative.

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