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The Book Thief (2013)

The Book Thief (2013)
Rating: ★★
May 16, 2014Growing Up in Nazi Germany/Death Personified
Narrated by Death, this story of a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany comes with the self-importance of awards consideration bait. One of the great crimes of modern history (The Holocaust) is reduced to picture postcard sentiments
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The Wolverine (2013)

The Wolverine (2013)
Rating: ★★
Aug 3, 2013X-Men Spinoff Film
While this received a good deal of fan buzz, I must admit to being disappointed. It strips much of the superheroics and mutant cameos of the other X-Men films until it feels more like a Westerner in Japan thriller like Black Rain or even a routine film noir plot that happens to be cast with Wolverine
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The Maze Runner (2014)

The Maze Runner (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 28, 2014Young Adult/Maze World/Conceptual Breakthrough Story
One of the better among the current fad for Young Adult dystopian SF works post-The Hunger Games. This dispenses with dystopian Coming of Age stories and gives us a fascinating conceptual mystery even if the answers prove underwhelming
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rating: ★★★
May 25, 2014Comic-Book Superheroes
It is nice to see Bryan Singer regain his form after several years lull. The plot is nothing world-shattering but it is nice to see a character-driven X-Men, while Singer delivers the superheroics with a cheer-out loud elan that most of the sequels missed by a wide margin
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Devil’s Due (2014)

Devil’s Due (2014)
Rating: ★★
Jan 24, 2014Found Footage/Satanic Impregnation
A Found Footage film that seeks to overhaul the Satanic impregnation film a la Rosemary's Baby. Both the Found Footage and the Satanic impregnation genres feel well-mined by now and this fails to offer anything new
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 21, 2015Spy Film/Comic-Book Adaptation
This rescues the spy film from the silliness of Austin Powers. The film's sly mocking of its Englishness, with Colin Firth going into action as an impeccably mannered gentleman, along with explosive action sequences is irresistible
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The Scorch Trials (2015)

The Scorch Trials (2015)
Rating: ★
Oct 30, 2015Young Adult/Post-Holocaust Adventure
The Maze Runner was one of the better Young Adult films, creating an intriguing conceptual mystery; this sequel ignores all of that, even throws the book out and is essentially a jumble of random sf tropes that amount to no more than running, shooting and things exploding
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)

Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Rating: ★
Dec 5, 2015Frankenstein Adaptation
An madcap new version of the Mary Shelley story where everything is turned up to an overwrought 11 on the dial. How more nutzoid can you get than a version where Igor the hunchback (a completely miscast Daniel Radcliffe) is the main character?
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
Rating: ★
Apr 4, 2016Singing Chipmunks
The end of Western civilisation is surely upon us that studios have devoted multi-million dollar resources to making four of these films and that audiences flock to them despite universally terribly reviews. Ok so maybe I hated this one marginally less than the preceding three
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 29, 2016Secret Home for "Gifted" Youths
Tim Burton used to be the great hope of fantastic cinema but his efforts since 2000 have been greeted with general disappointment. This Young Adult adaptation plays out like a fantasy version of the X-Men
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 2, 2017Spy Film/Comic-Book Adaptation
Kingsman with its parody of gentlemanliness and action movie sensibilities, was the smartest of the modern spy movie parodies. This sequel has gone to the excesses of the Roger Moore Bond films in the space of one film
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Rating: ★★
Jan 25, 2020Time-Travelling Killer Androids
The sixth Terminator film that boasts the return of both James Cameron and Linda Hamilton to the franchise. After the troughs of Terminator: Genisys, this makes one forget about the last three sequels
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 8, 2023War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
James Cameron finally delivers his sequel to Avatar. Nothing could quite repeat the same phenomenon a second time but this does well with Cameron taking the opportunity to show more depth to his alien world
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28 Years Later … (2025)

28 Years Later … (2025)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 9, 2025Post-Holocaust/The Zombie Apocalypse
28 Days Later was the work that started the modern zombie film revival. Twenty-three years later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to make a third film and still wring some creativity out of the set-up
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Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 17, 2026Alien Huntsman on a Death Planet
The ninth Predator film. This changes the mix quite considerably from the usual alien huntsman vs human prey formula we have had so far. It also offers a return to the Alien universe, although not quite what we expect
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 4, 2026War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
James Cameron makes a third venture into the world of Pandora. The question is whether he finds any new territory to explore. What you cannot deny is that he creates a pretty and absorbing picture out of it all
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28 Years Later … The Bone Temple (2026)

28 Years Later … The Bone Temple (2026)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 28, 2026Post-Holocaust/The Zombie Apocalypse
A follow-up to 28 Years Later …, made even before the first film was released. This gives a deeper exploration of the character of Dr Kelson and proves a surprisingly good complement to its predecessor
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