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Brian Raftery Wired Oct 22, 2018 The latest iteration...is the first to recapture the unfussy rigor of Carpenter's original. Go to Full Review Halloween (2018) 79% 72%

Brian Raftery Wired Sep 13, 2018 An action-comedy at once incomprehensible and inconsequential, and so unfun-dumb that its stupidity feels like a contagion. Go to Full Review The Predator (2018) 34% 32%

Brian Raftery Wired Sep 10, 2018 Maybe the real reason the movie works so effectively is that, while watching David struggle through a dense and semi-menacing online world, we're also quietly searching for ourselves. Go to Full Review Searching (2018) 92% 88%

Annalee Newitz Wired May 25, 2018 This movie is stupid in the best possible way. I cheered all the way through - my shrieks of glee echoing off the walls. Go to Full Review Ghost Rider (2007) 28% 48%

Brian Raftery Wired May 24, 2018 As an expansion of the Star Wars saga, Solo is absolutely inessential. But as a movie, it's often surprisingly delightful. Go to Full Review Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) 69% 63%

Brian Raftery Wired May 23, 2018 As The Disaster Artist proves, it's all the more sweet when you can share that dream with as many others as possible. Go to Full Review The Disaster Artist (2017) 90% 85%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired May 19, 2018 The result is a movie where the biggest money shots feel largely obligatory -- just killers and filler, nothing more. Go to Full Review Alien: Covenant (2017) 65% 55%

Brian Raftery Wired Dec 12, 2017 It's a movie that lures you in with the familiar and the beloved, only to instead turn into something wiser, deeper, and more true than you could have ever guessed. Go to Full Review Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) 91% 42%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired May 12, 2017 [King Arthur] telegraphs from the beginning how desperately it wants to be Game of Thrones. Go to Full Review King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) 31% 69%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired May 3, 2017 Considering most kids' movies, especially ones about the Smurfs, don't have messages of female empowerment at all, this one's Smurfette twist is clever and deft-and completely out of the blue. Go to Full Review Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) 41% 54%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired Mar 10, 2017 Sadly, Taymor's Tempest didn't really work for me, for all the same reasons that I loved her Titus. Go to Full Review The Tempest (2010) 31% 28%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired Mar 10, 2017 Unfortunately, mashing together three by-the-numbers storylines, and putting absolutely no thought into any of them, results in a movie that's not just meaningless - it's meaning-repellent. Go to Full Review Men in Black 3 (2012) 67% 70%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired Mar 10, 2017 Suicide Squad tightens the straps so hard that the flow of blood gets cut off. You can't really go all the way with the self-mocking humor if you're constantly servicing your corporate franchise development strategy. Go to Full Review Suicide Squad (2016) 26% 58%

Charlie Jane Anders Wired Mar 1, 2017 Plenty of horror movies are terrifying in the moment, or leave the audience guessing until the final smash to black. But Get Out stays in your head long after the last scare. Go to Full Review Get Out (2017) 98% 86%

Phil Hall Wired Jan 8, 2010 4/5 E.T. phone Utah. A brilliant, batty romp. Go to Full Review - - - -

Phil Hall Wired Aug 18, 2004 5/5 Required viewing for anyone with pigeons on the grass. Go to Full Review Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me (1970) - - - -

Phil Hall Wired Oct 28, 2002 3/5 A one-of-a-kind education in creative filmmaking. Go to Full Review Institute Benjamenta (1995) 100% 88%

Phil Hall Wired Apr 12, 2002 A brilliantly demented anime masterpiece. Go to Full Review Roujin Z (1991) - - 62%

Phil Hall Wired Apr 12, 2002 Brilliant Italian parody of "Fantasia." Go to Full Review Allegro non Troppo (1976) 90% 88%

Phil Hall Wired Sep 7, 2001 Dreyer's stunning vampire classic. Go to Full Review Vampyr (1932) 98% 82%