Tags: Timey-Wimey (Time Travel)
Looper in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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C+ |
**½ |
+0|
Teens & Up
It’s all acceptably diverting, and not actively unpleasant like the 2002 sequel. There are no grand twists or revelations comparable to the truth about the “galaxy” in the original. What the film could most use, I think, is a wide-eyed uninitiate like Linda Fiorentino in the original or Rosario Dawson in the sequel — but one from 1969, which would offer a fresh twist on the outsider’s experience of the MIB’s nutty world.
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B+ |
***½ |
+2-1|
Teens & Up*
One could almost regard
Moon as a warm-up for
Source Code. Both films center on a solitary grunt who’s a cog in a much larger machine — an isolated man squirreled away in a cold, metallic space, unable to contact his loved ones, unsure exactly what’s going on, caught up in the seemingly impossible circumstances of a mission he doesn’t entirely understand. Both films raise questions of identity, memory, and human dignity in dehumanizing systems.
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C- |
*½ |
+0|
Kids & Up*
Are there five less inspiring words in the English language than “based on a video game”?
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B |
*** |
-1|
Adults
If it isn’t the brilliant film it could have been,
Déjà Vu still contains enough flashes of that film to make it entertaining while you’re watching it. On reflection, though, it feels a bit like a shell game in which the conjurer himself has lost track of where the pea is supposed to be.
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A- |
**** |
+1-1|
Teens & Up
Brilliantly constructed and virtually universal in its appeal, Robert Zemeckis’s
Back to the Future blends equal parts hilarity, nostalgia, science fiction, screwball comedy, and white-knuckle suspense in a complex storyline wound tighter than a yo-yo in a centrifuge.
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B |
*** |
-2|
Teens & Up*
Yet against all odds,
T3 is a smart, rousing extension
of Cameron’s paranoid fantasy that not only meshes seamlessly
with the past and future continuities of the earlier films, but
actually advances and develops the series’ apocalyptic mythology.
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D |
* |
+0|
Teens & Up
The Time Machine is so sloppy that it makes
Kate and Leopold look like
Back to the Future. It’s also pitiful entertainment, succeeding neither as spectacle, as action-adventure, or as love story.
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C |
** |
+1|
Teens & Up
Fortunately, it’s mostly about Kate and Leopold.
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A |
***½ |
+3|
Teens & Up*
This is a film
about the legacy of fatherhood and the inheritance of sonship,
about the unbreakable connection and the unbridgeable gap between
one generation and the next. It is a celebration of masculinity,
but it contemplates how men relate to women as an index of their
manhood.
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