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Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)::rating::4::rating::4::rating::4
S even movies in, the Mission: Impossible franchise has officially overtaken the 007 series for audacious, indulgent action spectacle.  Of course, they'll never match the quantity of Bond films (unless Tom Cruise decides to live another forty years), but their quality is now the gold-standard for burly, brainy tentpole flicks.  Also unmatched is Cruise's steely, batshit resolve…
October 13, 20230Comments
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Friday the 13th (1980)::rating::3
A s with many other influential movies, Friday the 13th carries the weight of everything it has inspired:  We're talking sequels, a prequel series, reboots, and retcons, ripoffs, and rehashes.  Along that journey, Jason Voorhees has been to Hell, Manhattan, Elm Street, and outer space.  You can also spot obvious homages within the Scream and Scary Movie franchises.  All that…
October 11, 20230Comments
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RoboCop (1987)::rating::4
I ronically, sci-fi movies offer a fascinating time capsule, a snapshot to the future we once anticipated.  In particular, 80s flicks looked to the horizon and saw an ugly world, slathered with graffiti and rife with the corruption of millionaires and billionaires.  They were cautionary tales, high-tech parables about how the crass consumerism and disposable…
October 4, 20230Comments
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Dredd (2012)::rating::4
A s with its main character, Dredd moves at a breakneck pace.  For 95 minutes, we bound from one bloody, explosive action scene to the next, until the kinetic force of the film almost grows exhausting.  Amazingly, Dredd manages to sneak in meaningful exposition and ambitious points about the dangers of instant judgment.  The result is…
September 26, 20230Comments
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Legend (1986)::rating::2.5
T wo battles rage throughout Ridley Scott's Legend:  On one front, the forces of purity duke it out with the belching, gurgling minions of evil.  Meanwhile, on a macro level, the entire film is an epic showdown between the brilliant and the blah.  Visually, Scott's bizarre, audacious fantasy is a wondrous achievement.  Jaw-dropping makeup and prosthetics…
September 13, 20230Comments

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