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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

Producer/writer Zack Snyder has recreated the depth of King Lear, only elevated to the sophisticated level of a YouTube comment thread…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

Eclipse is a movie about rejecting adulthood, not just as a person but also as a culture. It's about never crossing boundaries, never leaving home…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

It also has one thing that Lord of the Rings never did: A story that is human-scale, even if it's about hobbits and dwarves…

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Review of Men, Women & Children (2014)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

Moving and intense, Men, Women, and Children manages to make us confront uncomfortable realities about ourselves, while also reassuring us…

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Review of Love in Space (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

It's the perfect goofy romance if you need a night off from zombies and tense space battles…

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Review of Dream House (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

Even good actors in sexy clothes can't make this movie compelling…

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Review of The Darkest Hour (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 24 May 2018

[It's] like a bad holiday fruitcake that somebody tried to spruce up with a zillion lumps of neon-colored, soggy jellybean guts…

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Review of The Box (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 23 May 2018

Kelly is at his best when he's making mind-melting science fiction with allegorical underpinnings, but unfortunately The Box is more like a…

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Review of Let Me In (2010)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 23 May 2018

[Let Me In] won't make you jump out of your seat in fear, but it will leave you with a lasting impression of what it feels like to become so…

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Review of District 13: Ultimatum (2009)

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

This is a movie that never takes itself too seriously, except when it comes to action…

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Review of Knights of Badassdom (2014)

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

What's great about this movie is the way it remains so gentle and light, despite tackling a story that could get pretty dark…

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Review of Lucy (2014)

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

When you've got a badass superhero with evil futuristic drug lord enemies, you'd better have a damn good theory about the meaning of existence…

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Review of Star Trek (2009)

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

For the most part this film was a successful retelling of a beloved story…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

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

Though Beautiful Creatures is occasionally simplistic, and definitely goofy, it's also a genuinely compassionate story of what it's like to…

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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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