AdventurePrometheus 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.
AdventureFrom inside the book, these are the right criticisms. The short version: Villeneuve made two visually extraordinary films that get many of the big things right and a handful of things badly wrong.
AdventurePlanet of the Apes has one of the great endings in science fiction cinema and earns its place in the conversation entirely on the basis of that ending. The Statue of Liberty rising from the sand is the genre's most…
ActionWaterworld had one genuine asset going in: a production design concept that was visually striking and physically coherent. A world covered in water would.
ActionAvatar is a white savior film wearing the costume of environmental progressivism, and the combination is more offensive than either element alone. The Na'vi, despite everything that makes them extraordinary, apparently needed Jake Sully.
AdventureInterstellar is a bad film that has convinced a large number of people it's a profound one. The misdirection is accomplished through scale: everything is so large, so loud, so visually ambitious, so heavily scored that the emptiness at the…
AdventureMira has lost everything to the dragon that destroyed her village, and she's spent three days paralyzed by fear and shame. Now she stands at the edge of the valley with her grandmother's staff, forced to choose between running again…
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