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— Sigourney Weaver, Alien Resurrection

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Betty Blue

There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both —Marty Mapes (review...)

Betty arrives like a bolt from the Blue

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  • Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Review by Matt Anderson: Caple breaks the series back down into the fundamental elements that make this material work.

  • Nightmare Alley (2021)

    Nightmare Alley Review by Matt Anderson: The slow, precise journey is a hard sell with a payoff that isn’t entirely worth the effort.

  • Stonewall (2015)

    Irvine came to Stonewall Review by Robert Denerstein: Shortchanges reality

  • Pacific Rim (2013)

    Godzilla returns to the Pacific Rim... without Godzilla Review by Matt Anderson: Guillermo del Toro has made the best Godzilla movie Godzilla never starred in.

    Review by Robert Denerstein: Giant robots and ugly sea monsters stave off disaster for Del Toro's latest

  • Season of the Witch (2011)

    Review by Matt Anderson: One question lingers after seeing Season of the Witch: What the hell?

  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

    Del Toro makes the same mistakes with Hellboy II Review by Matt Anderson: A movie about magic and fantasy that is sadly missing its own spark of magic

  • Hellboy (2004)

    Perlman gets affectionately dubbed Hellboy Review by Matt Anderson: Pinned down by an incoherent storyline, the action actually becomes tedious

  • Blade II (2002)

    Snipes returns in Blade II Review by Marty Mapes: It has some of the successful elements of the first movie, but fails to hold together as well