Gattaca (1997) Review
Andrew Niccol designed Gattaca's world with genuine intelligence. The discrimination is depicted without melodrama, which is the film's most mature choice.
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AdventureRings of Power Review
The landscapes occasionally earn a 7 in isolation. In Tolkien's legendarium, Galadriel is one of the most powerful beings in Middle-earth.
DramaThe Expanse Review
By the standards that matter, world building, political complexity, character depth, physical realism, sustained narrative tension, nothing else in the genre comes close. Then Amazon bought it, and the same show with largely the same cast and creative team produced…
AdventureInterstellar (2014) Review
Interstellar 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…
DramaContact (1997) Review
Contact is a film about a scientist so committed to empirical evidence that she rejects faith, who then has a transcendent personal experience, returns with no physical evidence it occurred, and is expected by the film to continue believing in…
Artificial IntelligenceA.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Review
Stanley Kubrick developed the project for years before his death; Steven Spielberg completed it as a tribute. The first act honors the premise.
DramaPredestination (2014) Review
Predestination is a clever puzzle in search of a reason to exist. The temporal loop at its center, a person who is their own parent, their own child, and their own nemesis, is logically consistent in a way that time…