movie reviews
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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Gizmodo Review
There are few things more impressive than the imagination of J.K. Rowling, and it’s on full display in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Harry Potter author-turned-screenwriter has begun an exciting new chapter in her wizarding world, set 70 years before the Potter story starts (and in America!), and it very nearly reaches…
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Movie Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children Is Fascinating But Flawed
Tim Burton’s latest film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, is both a beneficiary and victim of its own ambition. The film takes place in a brand new, original, fascinating world that audiences will instantly fall in love with. But this world is so complex, the movie struggles to fit in a wholly satisfying story.
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Shin Godzilla Is A Wonderfully Over-The-Top Satire Of Japan-US Relations
The best exploitation films try. Beyond slashing up coeds or destroying major metropolitan areas or engaging in some salacious torture porn, a good exploitation flick is earnestly trying to be more. The guys who made Addio Zio Tom (1971) were trying to confront America’s sustained systemic abuse of black bodies. The people behind Rape Squad…
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Movie Review: The Autopsy Of Jane Doe Brings Scares, Surprises, And Surgery To The Horror Genre
Coroners Tony and Austin Tilden are ready to call it a day when the town sheriff wheels a mysterious young body into their morgue. On the outside, she looks totally fine, although she was found mysteriously buried under a violent crime scene. The Tildens are then tasked with figuring out how she fits into an…