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Review of Independence Day (1996)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

But what if that's just masking everything that we're afraid to admit…

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Review of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

Perhaps if we were all able to view life more like those games that challenged us as children, we wouldn't be so afraid to leap after what we want…

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Review of Stardust (1922)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

Stardust is a movie for people who like comedy, sword fights, unlikely friends, transformations, personal discovery and above all, love…

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Review of Iron Man 3 (2013)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

[IM3 features] the psychological damage that most superheroes are denied on film, the type of damage they are more likely to receive than any…

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

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

Where the action is concerned, Guy Ritchie was clearly looking to top the sequences of the first film, and he succeeded in scale, at least…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

This is an origin story that is rooted outside the actions of one-Clark Kent is not really even the central figure molding it…

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Review of The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 14 Jan 2019

It is a film that manages to be its own entity while honoring the book it came from entirely…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 11 Jan 2019

There's no driving style behind it, just a lot of white noise and cues for comics fans to slurp up…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 11 Jan 2019

[I]t retroactively makes 300 less interesting (if it was ever truly interesting to begin with)…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 11 Jan 2019

[Only Lovers Left Alive] provid[es] us with considered ruminations on time, comfort in connecting, and the progress of humanity in art and science…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 11 Jan 2019

Springboarding off of 2011's First Class and the aftershocks of the contemporary movies, DoFP brings together a decade and a half of X-films…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 11 Jan 2019

Basically, they got you to pay money to watch a one hundred minute commercial. They got you to do it, and like it…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

[Angelina Jolie is] funny, powerful, treacherous, and anything but a cardboard cut-out of cackling evil. Maleficent shines in her hands…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

[T]he movie spends such a wonderfully long time on the first act material, only to skimp on the second act…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

[Marvel keeps creating] excellent female characters, then com[ing] up with reasons why they cannot be the primary protagonist…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

The suggestion that bravery and kindness are intertwined irrevocably, that one must have courage to be kind, is completely bound to the narrative…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

[W]hat sets this movie apart is its ability to thoroughly educate its audience via entertainment…

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Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

[The] actors made the choice to treat this script as award-worthy material instead of the hilarious schlock it is, and the performances are…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

The real problem with Apocalypse is that it feels like two separate films. (...) The result is jarring on both an emotional and a cognitive level…

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Review of Deadpool (2016)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

Deadpool is a superb testing ground for a new generation of superpowered comedy…

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