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Category: Science Fiction

  • Movie Review: “Solyaris” (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR 1972)

    Ranked #154 on 2012 Sight & Sound Critics Poll Ranked #224 on 2012 Sight & Sound Directors Poll Andrei Tarkovsky is a director of whom I had somehow never heard before the 2012 Sight & Sound poll came out and he actually had seven films that received votes–as many as or more than such luminaries…

  • Movie Review: “Looper” (Rian Johnson, USA/China 2012)

        Since 2005, there have been three films that, to me, are always linked as extraordinary debuts from young American directors to watch in the future: Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, USA 2005), (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, USA 2009), and, best of all, Brick (Rian Johnson, USA 2005). These were all fantastic…

  • Movie Review: “Soylent Green” (Richard Fleischer, USA 1973)

    Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, USA 1973) is one of those rare films that became so much a part of popular culture that the film itself disappeared under its own mythology, like The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, USA 1939). People who not only have never watched the film but never would do so can quote,…