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Tag: Action/Adventure

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…a well-crafted and superbly acted sci-fi dystopia that resonates with much of what’s happening in our current age.”

Captain Phillips (2013)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…lets its central character’s vulnerability live and breathe.”

Gravity (2013)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…can’t be denied as a landmark visceral experience, even if there are some solid reasons to resist it.”

The Grandmaster (2013)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“It takes more than intertitles and explanatory voiceovers to derail a master like Wong.”

Hombre (1967)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

“…depicts the American West as a collision of codes.”

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

“… suddenly we have the cinema – that glorious mutt art.”

Elysium (2013)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“…captivated me with its depiction of a not-so-far-off future and the technology that governs it.”

The Phantom Creeps (1939)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

“A delightful artifact, both from the serial era and the career of Bela Lugosi.”

Westworld (1973)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

“There is some satire here – the devouring tourist becoming prey – but Crichton just lets the joke sit there, heavy on the screen.”

Pacific Rim (2013)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…never quite tingles your brain the way superior science fiction can.”

Recent Reviews

Disclosure Day (2026)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“Disclosure Day lobbies for our right to believe in something…”

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Documentary Rated PG

“… a wake-up call to anyone who thinks they can simply ride out humanity’s worst impulses.”

The Odyssey (2026)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“… galvanizing, glorious, out-of-this-world-while-clearly-created-within-it filmmaking.”


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