Archive for Release Year: 2018

7 posts from 04 August 2018 to 19 March 2018.

• Tomb Raider 2018

  ●●○○ 19 Mar 2018

  Generic action film that happens to take some cues from the game, ignoring the Angelina Jolie continuity. No The Descent references, for shame.

• Ready Player One 2018

  ●◐○○ 29 Mar 2018

  Spielberg trolls a generation. With Cline on board, they turn the book into Wreck It Ralph for older manchildren. Feels like The Matrix from the POV of Agent Smith. Should have guessed from the book’s ending.

• Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018

  ●●○○ 07 Apr 2018

  Lots of exposition to make sure you remember the last one. No major retcons that I noticed.

• The Death of Stalin 2018

  ●●●● 29 Apr 2018

  The Thick of It transplanted to Soviet nomenklatura. Funny and horrifying.

• Incredibles 2 2018

  ●●●○ 13 Jul 2018

  More of the same with loads of callbacks and references. Doesn’t reach the level of the first one, it’s an action packed scene with an ironic plot.

• Linhas de Sangue 2018

  ●●○○ 27 Jul 2018

  Ensemble parody of action films in general. Low budget doesn’t mean low quality, but in this case that is not completely off the mark.

• Annihilation 2018

  ●●○○ 04 Aug 2018

  Another Transcendence mindfuck. This one is a more blatant Tarkovsky ripoff, mostly Solaris and Stalker.