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Review of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

It's a genre-defying melancomedy that manages to be good science fiction and a moving romance at the same time…

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Review of Lovely Molly (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Lovely Molly is a mixed bag…

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Review of The Green Hornet (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

If you're looking for something that's a bit scruffy and off the beaten track, but still full of giant explosions, you'll definitely want…

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Review of The Moth Diaries (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

In The Moth Diaries, we're just left with a half-baked morality tale that seems to suggest that young women are so hungry for daddy…

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Review of Pandorum (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

This movie had way too little science in it and way too much running around boringly. And the monsters? Not even cool…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Contagion suffers from an occasionally sterile perspective on what should be an emotionally harrowing experience, but it's refreshing to…

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Review of The Innkeepers (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The Innkeepers starts unevenly, but ratchets up the tension until the explosively weird finale. And it will teach you to cover your freakin ears…

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Review of Inception (2010)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

No matter how you look at it - as a new take on the heist film, as a narrative mind game, or as a metaphor for filmmaking itself -…

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Review of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

I think The Plan is destined to be the kind of thing that nobody but [Battlestar Galactica] completists will want to own…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The meat of the Sherlock Holmes franchise is quip-laced action, and Game of Shadows mostly delivers on that…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

What's amazing about New Moon, and the whole Twilight series generally, is how easily it becomes self-parody…

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Review of Gamer (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

A blood-dark satire of futuristic videogame culture that will push all your buttons…

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Review of Tai Chi Zero (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Fight scenes in Tai Chi Zero deliver the epic awesomeness of a true kung fu movie, but they are leavened with Jackie Chan-style silliness…

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Review of The Bourne Legacy (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Bourne Legacy is an object lesson in how to screw up a reboot…

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Review of Your Highness (2010)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

If you're like me and have a sense of humor that's still stuck in seventh grade, then Your Highness will have you repeating one-liners for days after…

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Review of Crank: High Voltage (2009)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

There is something undeniably disturbing about a story that is so plainly intended to degrade every character in it. And yet that is its charm…

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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

Zombie movies require a certain amount of weirdness or subversiveness to succeed…

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Review of The Bay (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The issues are timely, the pacing is snappy, and the grossout scenes are duly gross…

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Review of Red Riding Hood (2011)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

The creepiness here comes not just from the head-chomping, but also from the way young women are treated in this tiny, medieval village…

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Review of Kiss of the Damned (2012)

By Annalee Newitz (110) for io9.com (258) on 22 May 2018

In this weird little movie, you'll rediscover the dramatic insanity that made you adore vampires in the first place…

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