The Critic of Pure Reason
Meet Ed
Ed Robertson, a Tri-City native and NYU grad, is a sci-fi writer and movie critic also published at Smashmouth.
'Battleship' an unlikely victor
Driven by great pacing and editing, suspenseful storytelling and a nice cast, 'Battleship' unfolds with more precision than your average sprawling blockbuster.
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Big Awful Friday: 'Tiny Furniture' well-written recession-era movie
Lena Dunham's portrait of modern-day New York bohemians in 'Tiny Furniture' can feel like an alien world, but the post-graduate malaise she captures is pretty universal and a promising start to a young career.
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'Dark Shadows' worse than doing the dishes
'Dark Shadows' feels like a bad adaptation of a long-lost Charles Dickens novel about vampires and the witches who love/hate them.
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Big Awful Friday: ‘No Escape’ condemns you to good time
'No Escape, released in 1994, was actually a little smarter than I remembered. Jailed for executing his commanding officer, Ray Liotta has escaped from every prison he’s been sent to. But when he’s dumped on a prison island, there’s nowhere to run to -- and a war is brewing ...
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'The Avengers' may finish as 2012's most fun movie
'The Avengers' is an instant superhero classic. Funny, rollicking and sharper than a kitten's claw, it might be the most fun movie of the year.
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Big Awful Friday: Ryan Reynolds' 'Buried' worth unearthing
Today I was browsing through the vast cinema archives in my lair, ordering my robot butler to read me the titles of my many thousands of classics and oddities, when I commanded him to halt on a thriller called Buried .
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'The Raven' not nearly as interesting as its subject
Edgar Allan Poe was a pretty amazing dude.
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Big Awful Friday: 'Fatal Attraction' remains required viewing for married men
Some movies you've basically seen before you actually watch them. They are movies that get referenced and parodied so often you know what they're about before the opening credits.
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Try not to fall asleep during 'The Lucky One'
Considering how uninteresting the rest of it is, The Lucky One has one of the strangest transitions I've ever seen.
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Big Awful Friday: 'Risky Business' remains safe bet
Stories are about change, but movies don’t handle all changes equally well.
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'Lockout' offers lively, if choppy, sci-fi ride
Super-special prisons make for fun stories, but you have to admit they're hardly necessary in real life.
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