Simon Abrams
Movie Reviews

Final Cut movie review & film summary (2023)

Remi’s feelings about making a zombie movie are quickly sublimated into the process of making a zombie movie. He paces up and down

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Biosphere movie review & film summary (2023)

“Biosphere” has a curious premise that’s briskly unpacked within the movie’s first half hour. [SOME ESSENTIAL SPOILERS FOLLOW] In that time, insecure Billy

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Shin Kamen Rider movie review (2023)

Anno’s take on Kamen Rider plays out like a loving, idiosyncratic deconstruction of Kamen Rider, a wayward young hero who defends the world

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Simulant movie review & film summary (2023)

These big moments aren’t impressive enough to make “Simulant” more than the bargain bin sci-fi pastiche it obviously is. But there’s some appreciable

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The Roundup: No Way Out movie review (2023)

In “The Roundup,” Ma Seok-do, Lee’s barrel-chested renegade cop, pummels his way through another pack of vicious baddies. A new sequel, “The Roundup:

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Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV movie review (2023)

In a mix of epigrammatic soundbites and testimonials, Paik describes the difficulties he had in finding opportunities and receptive audiences for his earliest

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods movie review (2023)

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” meanders further in that direction. The first “Shazam!” works as well as it does because it’s mostly focused

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Daughter movie review & film summary (2023)

Mother reassures her Daughter in Vietnamese. This early conversation seems to go on for longer than it should, but the silences that punctuate

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New Gods: Yang Jian movie review (2023)

“New Gods: Yang Jian” is the second movie in an expensive-looking series that began in 2021 with the uneven but relatively straightforward “New

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Shin Ultraman movie review & film summary (2023)

“Shin Ultraman” doesn’t stray far from the well-entrenched conventions of Japanese monster movies. Scientists, military officials, and other stuffed shirts gawk at computer

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