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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)::rating::4::rating::4::rating::4
S tar Trek: First Contact proves just how well people can work with their backs against the wall.  The previous installment, Generations, had managed to disappoint critics and die-hard fans alike.  Even that film's monumental teaming of nerd icons (Captains Kirk and Picard) fell curiously flat.  There were rumblings that the Next Generation crew couldn't carry a film,…
August 8, 20220Comments
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Primer (2004)::rating::3
I f you strapped me to a lie detector, and I told you I had a firm grasp of Primer's plot, that needle would be twitching like crazy.  The dialogue is so slathered in technical jargon it makes Star Trek sound like Sesame Street.  Add an elliptical plot structure and occasional dips in sound quality, and you've got the…
August 1, 20220Comments
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The Gray Man (2022)::rating::2.5
W ith its frantic action scenes and brawny stunt work, The Gray Man could be an insecure cousin to the Bourne, Bond, and John Wick flicks.  As an inferior product, Gray overcompensates by being bigger, busier, and louder, all in the vain hopes you won't notice how mediocre it really is.  Put another way:  That's a really soft two-and-a-half…
July 29, 20220Comments
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Nope (2022)::rating::3.5
W ith Nope, writer-director Jordan Peele delivers a bizarre, fascinating hybrid movie:  On one hand, this is a burly sci-fi spectacle, with obvious echoes of Close Encounters, War of the Worlds, and Signs.  Peele balances this admirable ambition with flourishes of B-movie silliness, dosing his horror film with the infectious humor of Tremors and the macabre whimsy of…
July 23, 20220Comments
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022)::rating::2
J urassic World Dominion takes hundreds of millions of dollars, Oscar-level talent, and two-plus hours of the audience's valuable time, and shovels them all into a blazing furnace.  The result is a hellish inferno that threatens to engulf any good vibes this franchise has left.  Somehow, the filmmakers manage to make ravenous dinosaurs seem boring, while also…
July 19, 20220Comments
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)::rating::3
I f Thor: Ragnarok was a welcome attempt to infuse the God of Thunder with a disarming sense of goofiness, then Love and Thunder is an all-out surrender to it.  The Shakespearean heft of Thor and The Dark World feels light years away, and in its place we get squalling goats, a chatterbox rock monster, and Axel Rose all over the…
July 8, 20220Comments

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