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First Cow movie review: new world, same as the old world

Thu, Jul 23, 2020
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A simple story about friendship. A revisionist Western reworking fables of masculinity and frontiers. A softly savage deconstruction of the American dream, of capitalism itself. An astonishing movie.

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Out of Blue movie review: murder most muted

Fri, Mar 22, 2019
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A limp noodle of a cinematic noir that drains Patricia Clarkson of her usual eccentric charisma. And where it aims for intriguingly oblique pseudoscientific philosophizing, it ends up merely obtuse.

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Journey’s End movie review: where the war winds blow

Fri, Feb 02, 2018
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A descent into the muddy trenches of World War I that is intimate and immediate, melancholy and profoundly moving. An experience as visceral as it is intellectual.

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Atomic Blonde movie review: bland ambition

Fri, Aug 11, 2017
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The living, breathing, bleeding life of the breathtaking fight scenes cannot overcome confusingly twisty spy intrigue and multiple male gazes on the story.

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Morgan movie review: AI why?

Mon, Sep 05, 2016
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Eschewing the compelling SF questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous.

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Red Lights (review)

Fri, Jun 15, 2012
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This ridiculous flick wants to have its pseudoscience cake and eat it too…

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Snow White and the Huntsman (review)

Tue, May 29, 2012
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Would really really like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie review: let the spy one in

Thu, Sep 22, 2011
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Why does no one ever intone at me and tell me to go to Budapest and wear polyester and smoke cigarettes and get all espionagey, dammit?

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Captain America: The First Avenger (review)

Mon, Jul 25, 2011
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It’s now a tossup whether the best comic-book superhero movie of 2011 is X-Men: First Class or Captain America: First Avenger… But I’m leaning toward Captain America.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (teaser trailer)

Thu, Jun 30, 2011
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Holy mole-y! It’s a geek girl’s dream cast.

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