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Doctor Strange (2016) Review

Cumberbatch as a specifically arrogant intellectual protagonist, Tilda Swinton's Ancient One, reality-folding combat. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of one of the more successful Phase Three MCU entries and the entry that introduced the franchise's mystical-arts dimension.

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Ex Machina (2014) Review

Garland built Ex Machina to be precise, controlled, and unsettling in a register that keeps the audience at analytical distance instead of pulling them into emotional investment. The performances are strong.

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Aliens (1986) Review

Aliens earns its 8 by doing the one thing sequel filmmaking almost never manages: it doesn't compete with the original. Ridley Scott's Alien is a horror film about isolation and violation, one creature, confined space, systematic elimination of everything between…

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Prometheus (2012) Review

Prometheus wastes one of the most visually gifted directors in contemporary cinema on a script that requires its characters to be catastrophically stupid. These are supposedly the best scientists humanity could assemble for a trillion-dollar mission to find humanity's creators.

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