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Hunger Games

The Dressmaker movie review: haute couture as a tragicomic weapon

Fri, Nov 20, 2015
6 comments

So entertaining, so unexpected, so wonderfully oddball, so damn good. Witty genre-busting simmering with pathos, humor, and calamity.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 movie review: breaking the blockbuster

Mon, Nov 16, 2015
10 comments

One of the smartest and most enthralling SF film series ever breaks more new ground as it ends on notes as emotional and provocative as they are explosive.

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from Facebook: would you visit a Hunger Games theme park?

Tue, Nov 03, 2015
1 comment

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials movie review: apocalyptic pile-on

Fri, Sep 11, 2015
5 comments

The only slightly original element of the first film — the Maze — is gone, and now we’re in not simply a generic afterscape but every sci-fi afterscape.

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Far from the Madding Crowd movie review: a woman’s choices

Wed, Apr 29, 2015
17 comments

Ridiculously romantic in all the best ways, and more modern, more progressive, and even just plain more grownup that half the movies thrown at us today.

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The Divergent Series: Insurgent movie review: being human

Tue, Mar 17, 2015
14 comments

Sneakily undercuts tropes of the young-adult hero’s journey. But in a more adventurous movie environment, this wouldn’t feel this fresh as it does.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I movie review: image manipulation

Thu, Nov 13, 2014
39 comments

One of the best SF series ever deepens its critique of the power of propaganda in ways complicated, intriguingly contradictory, and a little bit horrifying.

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The Maze Runner movie review: a terrible feeling of deja vu

Thu, Oct 09, 2014
32 comments

Bland and generic beyond the small pleasures of its theme-park-ride-esque thrills and its half-intriguing, half-infuriating mystery.

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Snowpiercer movie review: hunger train

Thu, Jul 10, 2014
40 comments

Hauntingly grim, full of appalling ironies and awful truths. This is most definitely not the feel-good movie of the summer.

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Divergent review: girls just wanna do everything

Thu, Apr 17, 2014
38 comments

No, it’s not wildly different than other science fiction, hero’s journey, and adventure movies. Sometimes we call such stories archetypal. Mythic, even.

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