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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

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

[I]f you want a moving account of kids coming-of-age with an SFF twist, you'd be better off just screening The Goonies or E.T. at home…

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Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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

It feels like an exciting time to be a Star Wars fan again. What's more, it's an exciting time to watch a new generation become Star Wars fans…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

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

The movie is definitely lacking in terms of narrative succinctness, which comes primarily from asking far more questions than it is capable…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

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

[Baymax is] funny and squishy and over-concerned and allows for the same sort of secretive wonder kids got out of E.T. a few decades back…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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

[W]hatever its flaws, Age of Ultron is better than a roller coaster, and gives MCU fans plenty to chew on…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

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

These films are at their best when they're working with small touches, and yet again, this is where they shine…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

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

Because however dark their stories get, the Wachowskis clearly have hope, and they hold that above all…

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Review of Flight of the Navigator (1986)

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

Flight of the Navigator is almost like two movies in one -- a creepy sci-fi mystery and a BFF road trip comedy all squished up together…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

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

By the time the end is upon you, and the twists are revealing themselves like falling dominos, it is hard to catch a breath…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

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

There's a whole subplot (...) about the world trying to decide how it feels about Superman (...) and it's so important that it's dropped about…

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Review of Pan (2015)

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

Neverland is not a place that can be measured with dimensions (...) and mile markers…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

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

The magic the audience witnesses is a window to clarity; it makes the world sharper, not more obtuse, which is very fitting indeed…

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Review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)

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

Directed by Yuen Woo-ping (who choreographed the fights for the first film), Sword of Destiny feels westernized in every sense of the word…

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Review of Real Genius (1985)

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

Real Genius shows that nerds have their own games…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

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

It brought beautiful costumes into this world, and also has bracket narration by Liam Neeson. So, you know, it might be your thing…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

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

Now we have Captain America: Civil War, a film in which every single character decision is deeply personal, deeply emotional…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

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

This film is extraordinary. But it also fails. It is an evocative, imperfect beast of a movie…

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Review of The Mummy (1999)

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

[Evelyn's] curiosity is what eggs the plot on, and while Rick is certainly the hero, he's also technically just her muscle…

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Review of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

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

For a film that clearly sets out to make Indiana Jones his own legend, it does so in every sense of the word…

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Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

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

While it gives the occasional nod to fun gags from the first movie, the universe is entirely different and has another story to tell…

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