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Watching A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, I found myself desperately wanting to like it. The leads, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, are photogenic and share just the right kind of chemistry. The romantic elements tread a fine line between solemnity ...

Watching A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, I found myself desperately wanting to like it. The leads, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, are photogenic and share just the right kind of chemistry. The romantic elements tread a fine line between solemnity ...

(Contains spoilers about a certain cameo.)A case could be made that Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus is the third-best film of the nine movies to feature the infamous xenomorphs (with the prequel Prometheus being the only one not to name-check them ...

Banana Split, the directorial debut of cinematographer Benjamin Kasulke, is a romantic comedy with a twist. Here, the central relationship is one of platonic friendship rather than physical attraction. (Although one could make a case that ther...

For 35 years, fans of Blade Runner have discussed and deconstructed the original film while speculating about where the story might go next. Director Ridley Scott bolstered the movie’s mythos by participating in several reworked versions, inc...

What potentially could have been the greatest asset possessed by Che - its unapologetic length - turns into its greatest detriment. One frequent complaint about cinematic biopics is that too much condensation is required and, as a result, key aspe...

At first glance, Creative Control appears to be sci-fi. It takes place in the (near) future and focuses on technology that probably isn’t far from being accessible. On closer examination, however, it at times plays more like an absurdist comedy...

The strange, surreal tone that permeates Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness is simultaneously its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. Vaguely echoing the likes of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut ...

The premise underlying The Curious Case of Benjamin Button might sound more appropriate for a science fiction tale than a meditative drama. Indeed, the concept of a man aging backward has formed the basis for more than one sci-fi tinged story - fr...

Call it The Golden Compass rule: No multi-part movie series should be started without a reasonable certainty that the story will be told in full. And, although The Golden Compass’ planned sequels were the first recent films to fall afoul of t...