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Review of The Rite (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

There are some scares, some cool devil moments, and Hopkins delivers a wry performance which suggests that he may realize his job is all theatrics…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

No it's not a masterpiece - but it's a solid little movie, and I'd highly recommend it…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

As you watch the plodding action in Oz unfold, you'll find yourself wishing it had a bit more of the anything-goes spirit of a B-movie…

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Review of Detention (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

[Detention] is a genre mashup unlike anything you've ever experienced - it's a ritalin-fueled whirl of bizarre stories about aliens, time travel,…

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Review of Zombie Strippers! (2008)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

This movie is like some kind eruption from the dark heart of pop culture and intellectual culture at once, a meditation on female sexual conformity…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The troubling fact is that the whole shiny edifice of Mary Sue indulgence here is built to cover up one of the most disturbing fantasies that…

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Review of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

It's a genre-defying melancomedy that manages to be good science fiction and a moving romance at the same time…

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Review of Lovely Molly (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Lovely Molly is a mixed bag…

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Review of The Green Hornet (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

If you're looking for something that's a bit scruffy and off the beaten track, but still full of giant explosions, you'll definitely want to…

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Review of The Moth Diaries (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

In The Moth Diaries, we're just left with a half-baked morality tale that seems to suggest that young women are so hungry for daddy surrogates…

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Review of Pandorum (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

This movie had way too little science in it and way too much running around boringly. And the monsters? Not even cool…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Contagion suffers from an occasionally sterile perspective on what should be an emotionally harrowing experience, but it's refreshing to see…

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Review of The Innkeepers (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The Innkeepers starts unevenly, but ratchets up the tension until the explosively weird finale. And it will teach you to cover your freakin ears…

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Review of Inception (2010)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

No matter how you look at it - as a new take on the heist film, as a narrative mind game, or as a metaphor for filmmaking itself - Inception…

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Review of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

I think The Plan is destined to be the kind of thing that nobody but [Battlestar Galactica] completists will want to own…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The meat of the Sherlock Holmes franchise is quip-laced action, and Game of Shadows mostly delivers on that…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

What's amazing about New Moon, and the whole Twilight series generally, is how easily it becomes self-parody…

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Review of Gamer (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

A blood-dark satire of futuristic videogame culture that will push all your buttons…

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Review of Tai Chi Zero (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Fight scenes in Tai Chi Zero deliver the epic awesomeness of a true kung fu movie, but they are leavened with Jackie Chan-style silliness…

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Review of The Bourne Legacy (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Bourne Legacy is an object lesson in how to screw up a reboot…

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