A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
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Gareth Edwards reboots the dinosaurs as a lean tropical survival picture, handing the franchise back to scale and suspense rather than lore. The story is thin, the monsters are not, and it is a far better night out than the scores suggest. 8/10.
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Boyle and Garland come back to the Rage virus after eighteen years and find something stranger and sadder than another outbreak film. A coming-of-age story dressed as a horror, and a return that earns the wait. 8/10.
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Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie bring the espionage saga to a close with a sentient AI, a sunken submarine and a biplane, and the practical thrills still land harder than the plot. 8/10.
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Marvel hands its leftover bruisers and washouts a smaller, sadder, sharper film than the brand has managed in a while, and the gamble of casting Florence Pugh as the heart of it pays off. 8/10.
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A CIA desk analyst blackmails his way into the field to avenge his wife, and chases his targets with a laptop rather than a Glock. Familiar revenge bones, a genuinely fresh hero, and a real pleasure for anyone who likes their spies clever. 8/10.
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Soderbergh and David Koepp turn a mole hunt into a marriage under polygraph, ninety-four lean minutes of grown-up espionage built around Fassbender and Blanchett. Talky, elegant, and quietly vicious. 8/10.
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Bong Joon Ho follows Parasite with an expendable space worker who keeps dying and getting reprinted. It is messy and overstuffed, but the satire bites and Pattinson is a delight. 8/10.
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Anthony Mackie inherits the shield in a Marvel film that wants to be a political thriller and only sometimes manages it. The reviews are rough, but the conspiracy plotting and Mackie's sincerity carry it further than the scores suggest. 8/10.
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Scott Derrickson drops two snipers, a chasm and a love story into one of the year's better-kept secrets, and the parts that should not work are exactly the ones that do. 8/10.
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Drew Hancock's debut takes the killer-robot premise and points it at the controlling boyfriend instead, a lean and nasty little science fiction thriller with a real idea under the blood. 8/10.
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