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Dune movie review: dreams of alien worlds

Mon, Oct 25, 2021

Monumental. Villeneuve tells a familiar story with uncommon elegance and pensiveness, even dreaminess, on a breathtaking scale. A stunningly gorgeous, supremely dignified movie about ugly things.

curated: the boy who was almost Anakin Skywalker

Sat, Oct 02, 2021

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Please watch this absolutely bittersweet and poignant short film about Devon Michael, a child star in the 1990s who was on the very shortlist to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace…

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker movie review: the galaxy isn’t far far away, it’s just very small

Thu, Jan 09, 2020

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Kudos to J.J. Abrams for doing something extraordinary: he has made me not care about Star Wars for the first time ever. I’m kind of relieved that it’s over, because it has stopped being fun.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil movie review: mistress of what now?

Wed, Oct 16, 2019

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An apparently unfairly maligned “wicked witch” has to be redeemed again. Anyway, bitches be evil, crazy and traumatized, or sweet dumb personality-free near-morons. You know, for kids!

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.

at the 20th anniversary of ‘Titanic,’ where are all the knockoffs?

Wed, Nov 29, 2017

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We should be absolutely sick to death of all the cash-ins, pseudo-remakes and imitators. Where are they?

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: the high price of hope

Fri, Dec 16, 2016

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There’s genuine fun here, but the humor is cynical, the heroics are tinged with regret, and it’s all delivered with a cold smack of — yes — political relevance.