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Alita: Battle Angel movie review: ‘Rollerblade Runner’ with a Strong Female Character(TM)

Wed, Feb 13, 2019
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Devoid of personality and soul, this hellish Frankenstein monster of processed entertainment product wallows in a stew of borrowed ideas and imagery and does absolutely nothing fresh with them.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jul 04

Fri, Jul 06, 2018
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Lex Scott Davis protests the Purge, Elle Fanning invents science fiction, Whitney Houston is eulogized in documentary form, and more…

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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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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri May 25

Fri, May 25, 2018
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Elle Fanning invents science fiction; Natalie Dormer overhears a murder; more…

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The Titan movie review: bad science, worse science fiction

Wed, Apr 18, 2018
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The science is ludicrous, the story is almost entirely free of drama, and the finale descends into the hoariest, most ridiculous clichés of the genre. But the future smart-house porn is lovely.

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from Facebook: what to call Frankenstein’s monster?

Sat, Mar 19, 2016
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Victor Frankenstein movie review: monster mush

Fri, Dec 04, 2015
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A riff on the Hollywood conventions of a story we know very well already, with little new to say. James McAvoy’s mad scientist is fun to watch, though.

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Mr. Holmes movie review: the case of the missing myth

Wed, Jul 22, 2015
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It looks lovely and Ian McKellen is amazing, of course, but it’s not very Holmesian. I suspect Holmes himself would snort in derision at its sentimentality.

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Dracula Untold movie review: it doesn’t suck

Sat, Oct 04, 2014
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A solid action fantasy more elemental and visceral than I expected, thanks to the potent presence of Luke Evans.

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QOTD: Which iconic (or imaginary) actor pairings would be fun to reverse?

Wed, Feb 06, 2013
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Like how Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could have swapped roles in Les Misérables and it would have worked just as well…

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