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Strange Days (1995)

I oscillated back and forth between my horrified reaction and my fascination with that reaction, which left me feeling profoundly dissociated from the film.

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Akira (1988)

I’d heard so much about how influential Akira is; what I wasn’t expecting was to see how seamlessly Akira folds its own influences into its story without ripping off the originals or cheapening itself in the process.

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First Man into Space (1959)

Icarus by way of 1950s propaganda.

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Sputnik (2020)

I understand why Sputnik is held up to Ridley Scott’s Alien, but I think the comparison does Sputnik a deep disservice.

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Avatar (2009)

Sometimes, you need something relatively brainless on a Friday night, and then that brainless thing makes you think a lot about ecofeminism and colonialism.

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Alien (1979)

It felt good to sit in a sold-out theater and watch one of my all time favorite movies on the big screen…And then someone decided to catcall Ripley during the final scene in the shuttle.

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Avengers: Endgame

Watching the characters bounce off each other in interesting ways reminded me of my biggest beef with the Marvel movies.

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