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Diverse group of characters in futuristic costumes and masks, including a woman with a rabbit-ear headpiece.
Review

Borderlands review – rage-quit worthy video game slop

by Juan Barquin

Eli Roth’s slap­dash adap­ta­tion of the brash video game series is a joy­less slog despite the pres­ence of Cate Blanchett.

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Two people, a man and a woman, standing on a wooden riverboat in a forest setting.
Review

Jungle Cruise

by Lou Thomas

Expec­ta­tions be damned: Disney’s river­boat caper is one of the year’s most pure­ly plea­sur­able motion pictures.

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Two men conversing in a lush, jungle-like setting with rocky cliffs and green foliage in the background.
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Gold

by David Jenkins

Insane avarice in the 1980s leads a bald­ing Matthew McConaugh­ey into the wilds of Indonesia.

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A person in a wetsuit surfing on a red surfboard in choppy blue waters.
Review

Point Break

by Luke Channell

Peo­ple jump­ing off things. And repeat. The remake that absolute­ly no-one want­ed has final­ly arrived.

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A woman wearing sunglasses and a black jacket, standing in a desert setting.
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Zero Dark Thirty

by Simon Crook

Kathryn Bigelow’s rapid response to the death of Osama Bin Laden is a taut and moral­ly ambigu­ous pro­ce­dur­al for the ages.

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A man wearing a black beret and leather jacket holds a gun while aiming it at the camera.
Review

Carlos

by Matt Bochenski

Olivi­er Assayas serves up an imag­i­na­tive but exhaust­ing study of a man who embod­ied the shift­ing sands of history.

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