Jena Malone

Contact (1997)

Contact (1997)
Rating: ★★★½
May 25, 2009Communications from Space
Carl Sagan's novel about SETI is inflated into a big budget film determined to impress even though the story did not need it. Sagan's interesting debate about religion and science is emasculated so as not to offend any religious groups
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Donnie Darko (2001)

Donnie Darko (2001)
Rating: ★★
Oct 28, 2001Troubled Teen's Precognitive Visions
A thoroughly overrated cult classic. A baffling mixture of precognition, time travel, sinister talking bunnies and 1980s satire. What this doesn't do is ever fall together into a coherent explanation about what is going on
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 23, 2013Future Televised Human Hunting/Social Revolution
The first sequel to the box-office juggernaut. The surprise is that it spends defies most of the things that made the first film, not to mention has made one of the year's biggest box-office hits into a parable for Marxist revolution
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 28, 2015Future Social Revolution
The finale of the saga comes with a tough, gritty edge that make it the best directed of the series. On the other hand, it builds well only to arrive at an ending that goes oddly sideways and throws sympathies to the wind
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The Neon Demon (2016)

The Neon Demon (2016)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 3, 2016Horror Film in the L.A. Modelling World
Nicolas Winding Refn makes a horror film set in the L.A. modelling world. A film of hypnotic surfaces that glitter with a troubling undertow, the result is like Valley of the Dolls as remade by Dario Argento
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Antebellum (2020)

Antebellum (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 26, 2020The Brutalities of Slavery/Reality Twister
This highly charged work about race issues received a very mixed critical reception but I liked it for its clever M. Night Shyamalan-esque twistiness that messes with storytelling convention
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