A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2013.
J. J. Abrams brings his rebooted Enterprise back for a faster, darker second outing built around a villain it would rather you did not name. The energy is real, the secrecy is silly, and it lands just shy of the first film. 8.5/10.
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Shane Black takes the keys to the biggest franchise in cinema and quietly turns it back into a buddy thriller about a man and his nerves. Divisive, funny, and far better than its problem-child reputation. 8/10.
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Joseph Kosinski follows Tron: Legacy with a gorgeous, melancholy science-fiction puzzle that borrows freely and looks like nothing else this spring. The story is familiar, the world is immaculate, and on mood alone it earns its keep. 8/10.
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Three directors, six stories, five hundred years and one cast playing everyone. A magnificent folly that mostly holds together, and the rare puzzle film you want to take apart again. 8/10.
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Tom Cruise takes on Lee Child's wandering ex-cop in a lean, old-fashioned investigative thriller from the man who wrote The Usual Suspects. The casting is all wrong on paper and the film is much better than that ought to allow. 8/10.
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