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Passengers movie review: lost in sexist space

Sat, Dec 24, 2016
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After a few quick nods to the profoundly unethical act at its core, it shrugs it off and uses it as the basis for its fairy-tale romance. This is not okay.

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The Colony review

Mon, Sep 23, 2013
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A small-scale science-fiction horror story full of big, troubling ideas about what a new Dark Ages might look like.

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Contagion movie review

Mon, Oct 24, 2011
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Ohmygod the germs, the germs! They’re everywhere!

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Armored (review)

Sat, Dec 05, 2009
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Can someone pul-eeze give Nimród Antal a decent script to direct?

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counting down the best films of 2006: No. 8, ‘Bobby’

Wed, Jan 31, 2007
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WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Emilio Estevez makes an enormous leap as a filmmaker, nay, as an artist, with this powerfully emotional tribute to the influence of Bobby Kennedy… and at the same time laments the absence today of his like in the public realm. As an American who … more…

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Event Horizon (review)

Mon, Sep 08, 1997
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Event Horizon had such promise…

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