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  • Brave

    Brave

    If you’ve never given Brave a fair shot, 2012 is as good a year as any to fix that — Mark Andrews’s film has aged into something like a cult favorite. Even the marketing knew what it had: the tagline “Change your fate.” sets the mood before a single frame plays. Strip away the craft…

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  • Star Wars

    Star Wars

    Not every film needs to reinvent its genre to be worth your time, and “Star Wars”, an action and adventure and science fiction entry, proves the point. It is the kind of film that tends to outlast whatever else came out the same year. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” That…

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  • The Empire Strikes Back

    The Empire Strikes Back

    There is a reason “The Empire Strikes Back” keeps coming up in conversations about action and adventure and science fiction filmmaking since its 1980 release. It is easy to see why it keeps getting recommended long after its initial release. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “The Star…

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