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Review of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

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

Hansel & Gretel, a bizarrely updated twist on the fairy tale, is the perfect example of a movie that is both intentionally and unintentionally…

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Review of Gamer (2001)

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 Total Recall (2012)

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

Total Recall is like Bourne Identity met Blade Runner, then had an ugly tabloid breakup followed by a nervous breakdown and a tell-all book…

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Review of Monsters (2010)

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

What starts as a great B-movie premise, unfortunately, degenerates into clueless moralism…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

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

You'll feel like you're sitting through a boring sermon, delivered by somebody who had too much to drink the night before and just wants to…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

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

The Robocop remake is a pitch-perfect update of a movie that is practically legendary…

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Review of Jonah Hex (2010)

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

The really sad part is that Josh Brolin is great as Jonah…

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Review of The Devil Inside (2012)

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

This movie is so aggressively nonsensical that your forehead will be sore from all the slapping…

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Review of Evil Dead (2013)

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

Not only is the Evil Dead remake humorless, but there's even a concerted effort at having a meaningful, emotional subtext to all the horror…

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Review of Immortals (2011)

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

Immortals is also one of those unusual big-budget movies that is both artful and unpretentious…

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Review of Manborg (2011)

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

Manborg's success in this regard has a lot to do with actor Matthew Kennedy, who plays the super cyborg with a kind of dorky pathos that's…

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Review of Your Highness (2011)

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

If you're like me and have a sense of humor that's still stuck in seventh grade, then Your Highness will have you repeating one-liners for days after…

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Review of Sinister (2012)

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

[Sinister] surprises you, and in the process allows you to see the movie from a new perspective…

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Review of Jennifer's Body (2009)

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

If you eat Jennifer's Body like weird candy, it works…

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Review of Noah and the Last Days (2014)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 21 May 2018

With his gorgeous, theatrical evocation of a Biblical fantasy Earth, Aronofsky does a fantastic job showing us Noah's pre-apocalyptic world…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 21 May 2018

Like the very best fairy tales, Harry Potter offers us a burning vision of our own world, with goodness and evil helpfully labeled…

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Review of Prometheus (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 21 May 2018

What is absolutely guaranteed, however, is that Prometheus will entertain you. It's a damn good ride, and it will, occasionally, make you think…

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Review of The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 21 May 2018

With cult movies, execution is everything. And The Human Centipede delivers…

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Review of Sucker Punch (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 21 May 2018

Sucker Punch offers a perfect portrait of storytelling gone wrong. Even the movie's attempt to comment on the problems of storytelling goes wrong…

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Review of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 21 May 2018

The movie succeeds as a savage and incoherent hallucination. As a story, not so much…

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