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Next (2007) Review

Nicolas Cage's precognition thriller with two-minute future-seeing capability. The unreliable narrator ending recontextualizes the entire production.

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Paycheck (2003) Review

The 10 rating reflects honest evaluation that critics never gave the film. Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a reverse engineer specializing in proprietary technology.

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Source Code (2011) Review

Duncan Jones's time travel thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal in eight-minute consciousness-transfer repetitions. The ending raises the entire production.

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Forbidden Planet (1956) Review

Foundation of modern sci-fi cinema. The 10+ rating reflects honest evaluation of a film that holds up nearly seventy years after release despite the inevitable dating that any production from 1956 carries.

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The Failure Of Stark’s Successors

Tony Stark's death created an institutional vacuum. An essay on how Tony Stark's death in Avengers: Endgame created an institutional vacuum that the various young Avengers framework characters have failed to fill, and what the failure reveals about whether character…

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The Romance Problem

Pepper, Peggy, Jane, Christine: Marvel's love stories keep falling flat. Why the franchise can't do romance, and the two exceptions that show how it's done.

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