Passengers (2016)
A handsome space-ark romance with a moral fault line at its heart that the critics will not forgive. Beautifully built, genuinely uncomfortable, and far better than its scores suggest. 8/10.
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2016
Articles published in 2016.
Rogue One - A Star Wars Story (2016)
The first Star Wars film with no Skywalker in it turns the saga's oldest plot hole into a grimy, doomed war film, and it is the best thing Lucasfilm has done since Disney bought the keys. 8.5/10.
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Arrival (2016)
Denis Villeneuve makes a first-contact film about grammar, grief and the shape of time, and Amy Adams carries every minute of it. Intelligent science fiction that earns its quiet. 8.5/10.
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The Accountant (2016)
A forensic accountant who launders for cartels by day and trains for war by night. The critics cannot decide what film they are watching, and they are missing a tremendously rewatchable one. 9/10.
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Doctor Strange (2016)
Marvel hands its house origin formula to a horror director and a fistful of psychedelic mathematics, and Cumberbatch makes the arrogance sing. The plot is familiar, the imagery is not. 8.5/10.
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Peter Berg turns the worst oil-rig disaster in American history into a tense, blue-collar procedural that respects the men on the floor more than it punishes the men in suits. 8/10.
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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
A small British zombie film that thinks harder than its budget, built on a remarkable child performance and an idea most of the genre never reaches for. 8/10.
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Jason Bourne (2016)
Damon and Greengrass are back after nine years away from the role, with the same shaky-cam fury and a new surveillance war to fight. The plot is familiar but the engine still runs hot. 8/10.
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Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Justin Lin steers the rebooted Enterprise back to its roots, trading portentous spectacle for a fast, warm-hearted away mission. The least fashionable of the three, and quietly the most likeable. 8/10.
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Captain America - Civil War (2016)
The Russos turn the thirteenth Marvel film into a paranoid loyalty thriller, hold a dozen heroes in tension without dropping one, and stage the best superhero set piece yet filmed. 8.5/10.
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