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Midnight Special
Good 17 Points 2016

Gets off to a slow start and remains too mysterious for its own good in the process. If you do decide to stick it out, it gets watchable when it eventually turns in to a thrilling chase movie and throws in a climactic alien reveal.

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Arrival
OK 83 Points 2016

Plodding, pretentious and predictable aren’t the attributes of high quality SciFi. Yet Arrival has been bathed in positive reviews. Amy Adams’ laudable performance notwithstanding, this praise is seriously mistaken. OK, perhaps I’d be less strident about this if the high marks hadn’t led me to …

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Passengers
Great 17 Points 2016

I think that most guys would agree that being trapped alone with Jennifer Lawrence would not be a bad thing, and watching it unfold along with Chris Pratt in a space travel setting was a cool way to spend a few hours. Loved Simon Pegg in his android form as well.

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Morgan
Good 17 Points 2016

Another film in a relatively recent slate of movies about artificial humanoids, Morgan focuses on the potential dangers of crafting beings for more than mundane purposes. The movie keeps you in suspense and even has decent twists to a good story line. Good enough even to get you past the ever-an…

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Spectral
Good 17 Points 2016

Sci fi homage to gaming and military follows special ops team dispatched to a European country to fight an unknown alien force; If you are just in the mood for action, you won’t be disappointed. If you are expecting something special, skip it.

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Colossal
None Yet 0 Points 2016
Kill Command
OK 17 Points 2016

A marines vs machines take. Decent action with a reasonable story line, but it fails to impress.

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Rogue One: A St...
Good 83 Points 2016

The Force is with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, albeit weakly and episodically. Thus, this one-off Star Wars movie registers as a mildly tasty surprise while we endure the two year wait between major episodes.

Rogue One tells the backstory of the Death Star, that ultimate weapon of mass de…

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War for the Pla...
Very Good 83 Points 2017

War is Hell — an equation that the concluding episode of Planet of the Apes hammers home relentlessly. Both sides of the war for Earth, aka the Planet of the Apes, have understandable reasons to kill The Other.

Their war is most assuredly hell, a legitimate, even perfectly justifiable hell…

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Life
None Yet 0 Points 2017