A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2015.
Twenty-two years after the park first failed, the gates reopen on a working resort and a lab-grown monster nobody should have built. It is louder and less magical than the original, but it knows exactly what it is for. 8/10.
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Brad Bird leaves animation to build a sincere, retro-futurist adventure about the cost of giving up on the future. The story wobbles where the design soars, but the optimism is hard to resist. 7.5/10.
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George Miller comes back to the wasteland after thirty years and makes the leanest, loudest action film in ages. Almost no plot, almost no let-up, and a stunt team doing it for real. 8.5/10.
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Neill Blomkamp turns a stolen police droid into a newborn mind raised by Johannesburg gangsters. It is messy, sincere and far more interesting than the critics will tell you. 8/10.
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The Spierig brothers take a notorious Heinlein paradox and a career-making Sarah Snook performance and build the most disciplined time-travel film in years. Small, clever, and built to be watched twice. 8/10.
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Alex Garland steps up to direct his own script, a chamber piece about a tech billionaire, a young coder and the machine between them. Cool, controlled and genuinely clever about artificial intelligence. 8.5/10.
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Matthew Vaughn takes the spy film, strips out the self-seriousness, and rebuilds it as a vicious, well-tailored comedy. Loud, funny, and far more confident than it has any right to be. 8.5/10.
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