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Aliens Review: A War Movie That Remembers the Horror
James Cameron turns Alien's isolated nightmare into a squad mission, but Ripley's trauma and the Marines' collapsing confidence keep the sequel tense.
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Casino Royale Review: Bond Learns How Much a Win Can Cost
Daniel Craig gives 007 a rough edge, Eva Green makes the poker game personal, and Martin Campbell keeps the action tied to character.
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Die Hard Review: An Action Classic Built on Vulnerability
Die Hard still works because John McClane can be hurt, Hans Gruber can think, and Nakatomi Plaza gives every confrontation a place and a purpose.
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Enter the Dragon Review: Bruce Lee Makes Every Fight Count
Bruce Lee's command of movement gives a conventional tournament and espionage story extraordinary energy, even when its supporting plot is thin.
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Hard Boiled Review: John Woo's Spectacle Has a Human Cost
Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung anchor John Woo's escalating gunfights, even when the police melodrama struggles to match the action's precision.
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John Wick Review: Clean Action, Lean Revenge
Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski make a simple revenge story compelling through readable movement and a criminal world sketched with restraint.
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House of the Dragon Season 3 Finale Review: Rhaenyra Crosses the Point of No Return
Tumbleton burns, Helaena falls, and the Realm's Delight becomes something else entirely. Our review of 'The Treasons at Tumbleton' — full spoilers.
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Mafia III Review in 2026: A Great Story Trapped in a Repetitive Game
Nearly ten years on, Lincoln Clay's revenge story is still one of the best in open-world gaming. The game around it is still the problem.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Review: Style, Revenge and the Cost of Excess
Uma Thurman holds together Tarantino's shifts from martial-arts film to anime and blood-soaked spectacle, though the first volume is deliberately incomplete.
RED 8/10
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Mad Max: Fury Road Review: A Chase With a Clear Purpose
George Miller turns a near-continuous pursuit into readable action and a story of escape, with Furiosa and Max sharing the road rather than competing for it.
RED 8.5/10
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout Review: Spectacle With Consequences
Christopher McQuarrie gives Ethan Hunt's biggest stunts clear objectives, while a dense web of alliances sometimes slows the chase between them.
RED 8.5/10
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Police Story Review: Jackie Chan Makes Every Object an Obstacle
The 1985 film's exhilarating physical comedy and escalating stunts outshine a thin police plot and some awkward tonal shifts.
RED 8/10
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Predator Review: When the Action Squad Becomes the Prey
The 1987 film's shift from commando swagger to jungle horror is its best idea, even if the characters rarely grow beyond their roles in the hunt.
RED 7.5/10
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Review: The Pleasure of a Fallible Hero
Spielberg's set pieces work because Indiana Jones has to improvise through them, though some of the film's cultural framing deserves a harder look today.
RED 8.5/10
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Seven Samurai Review: An Action Epic Built One Person at a Time
Kurosawa's long ensemble drama earns its final battle by teaching us the village, its defenders and the cost of each decision.
RED 8.5/10
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Speed Review: One Simple Rule, Constant New Problems
The bus premise keeps Speed focused, while Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock turn mechanical suspense into a lively partnership.
RED 8/10
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Review: Spectacle With an Emotional Core
James Cameron scales up the chase, gives Sarah Connor a harder edge and makes the T-1000 a threat that changes every encounter.
RED 8.5/10
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The Bourne Ultimatum Review: Urgency With a Point of View
Greengrass's rapid cutting and mobile camera make surveillance and pursuit feel immediate, though they sometimes ask the viewer to work too hard to read a fight.
RED 8.5/10
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The Dark Knight Review: Gotham's Crime Story Tests Its Hero
Ledger's Joker disrupts the city, but Nolan's best choice is to keep Batman and Harvey Dent inside the moral pressure he creates.
RED 8.5/10
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The Matrix Review: A Revolution That Still Has a Story
The Wachowskis make a complicated world legible through Neo's choices and action scenes that pay off the rules established around him.
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The Raid: Redemption Review: A Building That Keeps Fighting Back
Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais turn a simple police raid into a sequence of distinct, readable fights, even if the people between them remain thinly drawn.
RED 8/10
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Top Gun: Maverick Review: A Legacy Sequel With a Mission
The training structure and Maverick's conflict with Rooster give the aerial action stakes beyond nostalgia, despite a deliberately conventional story.
RED 8.5/10
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The Ritual Review: Netflix's Forest Horror Is Better Before It Explains the Nightmare
The Ritual is at its best when guilt, fractured friendship and an unknowable forest do the work. Once the film explains its threat, it trades dread for spectacle — and it's a worse movie for it, even if it's still a good one.
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Green Lantern (2011) Review: A Great Universe Trapped Inside a Bad Movie
Ryan Reynolds isn't the problem. Green Lantern's real failure is a screenplay that rushes past its best ideas — Oa, the Corps, Sinestro — to make room for a thin, familiar origin story.
RED 3/10
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Facing El Chapo Review: Netflix's Crime Thriller Finds Its Tension in Two Ordinary Cops
Facing El Chapo (La captura) puts two federal police officers, not El Chapo, at the center of its story. The choice mostly pays off, even when the film around it slows down.
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Insidious: Out of the Further Review: The Franchise Finds a Genuinely New Idea
Insidious: Out of the Further gives the franchise its best villain in years and a genuinely fresh supernatural hook in Gemma's Courier ability, even when the plot around it gets crowded.
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The Rings of Power Review: Beautiful Middle-earth, but Not Enough Tolkien
A retrospective review of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power through Season 2, ahead of Season 3's November 11, 2026 premiere. Gorgeous production, frustrating adaptation choices.
RED 5/10
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The Nun Review: Gothic Horror Does the Heavy Lifting
The Nun (2018) is thin on story and character, but its Romanian abbey setting, gothic atmosphere and Bonnie Aarons' Valak still make it one of the best-looking entries in The Conjuring Universe.
RED 8/10
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Review: A Flawed Adventure That's Still Ridiculously Fun
Twenty-three years later, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is still messy, overstuffed and uneven — but its cast, steampunk world and pulp-adventure charm make it far more fun than its reputation suggests.
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Supernatural Review: 15 Seasons Later, It's Still One of the Best Genre Shows Ever Made
327 episodes. Two brothers. One Impala. A retrospective review of Supernatural — what it got right, what it got badly wrong, and why it still works.
RED 9/10