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Rambo Brought the Vietnam War (and Its Scars) Home
Rambo: Last Blood is a muddled film that often seems curiously disconnected from what made First Blood such a compelling and iconic piece ...
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The Empire Strikes Back Created the Modern Film Franchise
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas effectively invented the modern blockbuster with their work on Jaws and Star Wars respectively, establishing a reliable template ...
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The Last Jedi Completed Luke Skywalker’s Journey
Luke Skywalker played an important role in the defeat of the Empire in the original Star Wars trilogy, and Star Wars: The Force ...
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Battle at Big Rock Reinvigorates the Tired Jurassic World Formula
Battle at Big Rock wins big by going small. The eight-minute Jurassic Park short arrived online with little fanfare, but it spread quickly. ...
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Titans Gathers DC Universe Teens into an Unconventional Family
At its core, Titans is the story of a found and unconventional family. This makes a certain amount of sense, given the origins ...
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It Chapter Two Shows That Facing Your Past Is Dangerous, but Forgetting It Is Fatal
It Chapter Two opens with Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa) meditating on memory and how it shapes and defines identity. “People want to believe ...
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is Powered by Beautiful Unreality
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a 10-hour-long ode to craft. Narratively, there’s not a lot going on within those 10 hours. ...
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It Parallels Stand by Me for a Horrifying Coming-of-Age Film
The most striking thing about 2017’s It is where it falls in the canon of cinematic Stephen King adaptations. While It might be ...
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Mindhunter Deconstructs the Serial Killer Procedural
Hello there. I’m Darren. I’m a film critic based in Ireland. I’ve written a couple of books of media criticism, hosted a couple ...