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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

[W]hile the film has its (...) dazzling moments, it does prove what many fans had bemoaned from the very start of this enterprise: it…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 09 Jan 2019

The suggestion that bravery and kindness are intertwined irrevocably, that one must have courage to be kind, is completely bound to the narrative…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

But is it fun? Well, if you can ignore the blatant stereotypes and ham-fisted dialogue, perhaps…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

The truth is, what Rogue One truly succeeds at is repackaging a familiar experience so expertly that it feels unique…

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Review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

The world is full of superheroes…

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Review of The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

A TV-14 rated version of Rocky Horror was bound to send up red flags no matter how you spun it…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

The Force Awakens came for your heart, but The Last Jedi is here for your spirit…

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Review of Robin Hood (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

Someday we'll get a new Robin Hood film that lives up to the jaunty adventures we adored as children, but we're currently about as far away…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

Sadly, the first serving of Justice ended up being more like a buffet no one ordered…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

The truth is, Solo is far from a risky venture-there's nothing surprising in it, just some good old-fashioned action-driven fun…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

While the film itself is fun, its place in the wizarding world continuity requires some more thought overall…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

The Crimes of Grindelwald fails to reproduce the fun of the original-and fills Rowling's Potterverse with a slew of gaping holes…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

There is no excuse for dialogue like this-unless it's meant to be read as a pure parody…

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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

Maintaining the tone of Milne's work was clearly foremost on the minds of the creative team, and Winnie the Pooh and pals are reliable as…

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Review of Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

It's a shame that conceit doesn't get moving a little faster, because the first half hour of the film is dead weight…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

Hugh Jackman is no longer weighed down by the unnecessary melodrama of the previous Wolverine films…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

[It's] a gargantuan circus tent and functions roughly the same; maybe you don't like every act in the circus, but the ones that you do are…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

While diehard book advocates may find themselves bothered by the changes made in this adaptation, it is a gorgeous journey that deserves the taking…

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Review of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

Taking the funniest character from the first film and handing the reins over to him was a pretty brazen move that paid off in more ways than one…

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Review of Deadpool 2 (2018)

By Emily Asher-Perrin (84) for Tor.com (87) on 08 Jan 2019

The meta comedy of Deadpool 2 manages to outdo its predecessor both in term of scope and deep cuts…

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