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

Thu, Jan 09, 2020
67 comments

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.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi movie review: a great disturbance in the Force

Mon, Dec 18, 2017
241 comments

Upends expectations, demythologizes the mythos, and takes an iconic series in a bold new direction with a story full of humor, courage, and dazzling imagery.

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Time to Choose documentary review: yes, it’s another movie about global warming

Fri, Jun 03, 2016
1 comment

Quickly dispels oh-no-not-more-doom-and-gloom climate-change trepidation with the optimism embodied in the title. There is hope for us, but we must act now.

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X-Men: Apocalypse movie review: everyone knows the third movie is always the worst

Thu, May 19, 2016
23 comments

About precisely nothing other than pure pulp comic-book soap-opera rigmarole, overshadowed by clichés, implausibilities, and missed opportunities.

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Mojave movie rating: red light

Fri, Mar 25, 2016
4 comments

A spoiled melancholy Hollywood brat and a menacing drifter engage in a deadly dick-measuring contest that you will hope neither survives.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie review: a new hope

Thu, Dec 17, 2015
99 comments

Charts a path to a future that refuses to get mired in nostalgia. Yet all the Star Wars notes are here, remixed into a glorious new arrangement.

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OFCS 2015 awards winners announced

Mon, Dec 14, 2015
1 comment

Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…

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Ex Machina movie review: damselbot in distress

Fri, Jan 23, 2015
205 comments

There’s nothing fresh or even usefully true in its cartoonish dichotomy about men, but this pseudo-SF flick will expound upon it with pretentious tedium.

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The Two Faces of January movie review: without a Hitch

Fri, May 16, 2014
1 comment

There’s delicious movie-movie elegance in the exotic locales and the period dress, but not much tension to be found in the murderous misadventures on offer.

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In Secret movie review: do you promise not to tell?

Thu, May 15, 2014
5 comments

If O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe collaborated on a love story, it might look something like this juicy bit of ironic gothic romance.

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