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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

The more preachy and pious the film becomes, the more muddled and unexciting it starts to feel…

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Review of Ratchet & Clank (2016)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

What saves Ratchet & Clank, and keeps it entertaining for us jaded adults, is its fast pace: the movie keeps serving up its goofy space-opera…

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Review of Dragonball Evolution (2009)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

There are balls of lint smarter than Dragonball Evolution…

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Review of Another Earth (2011)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Another Earth is a beautiful, haunting film that manages to make its two main characters feel like real people, and makes the fate of these…

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Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

It makes me sad that the only way they could get people to come see this new movie is by branding it with the name of a previous hit…

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Review of Attack the Block (2011)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Every Hollywood screenwriter should be tied to a chair and forced to watch this…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a brilliant action movie, that serves up a huge dose of wish fulfillment along with its bravura fight scenes…

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Review of Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Every cult needs its own wacky trainwreck of a movie... and now the cult of Ayn Rand gets Atlas Shrugged, Part 1…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

It's skating along the edge of total disaster…

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Review of Battleship (2012)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

If Battleship does show us quite how contrived the alien invasion genre has gotten, it also provides us with plenty of evidence of why we still…

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Review of Avatar (2011)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

It's one of the most vivid, visceral movies you've ever seen. It's cheesy enough for ten Swiss villages…

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Review of Project Almanac (2015)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Project Almanac just wants to say This stuff has already been done before, so there's no point in trying to get it right…

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Review of The Last Airbender (2010)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Shyamalan is your trickster guide on a journey into nothingness, from which only your soul-dead shadow will ever return…

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Review of Transcendence (2014)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Serves up super-geniuses who act so idiotic you want to throw things at the screen…

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Review of The Croods (2013)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

But The Croods is lazy, reaching for sitcom jokes that were old 20 years ago…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

This is a film that's simultaneously trying too hard and aiming too low…

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Review of Horns (2013)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Horns is best watched as a midnight movie, with your intoxicant of choice, and possibly as part of a marathon…

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Review of Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

You can pretty much count on a film like Wreck-It Ralph to be funny…

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Review of Avatar (2009)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

It's one of the most vivid, visceral movies you've ever seen. It's cheesy enough for ten Swiss villages…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Charlie Jane Anders (49) for io9.com (258) on 20 May 2018

Catching Fire is the rare film that's better than the original book…

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