Rachel Nichols

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)
Rating: ★★
Aug 25, 2009Futuristic Military Action Team
Stephen Sommers make a film based on the popular action toy line. Barring one exhilarating sequence in the middle, this consists of lots of sound and CGI fury amounting to very little at all
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Star Trek (2009)

Star Trek (2009)
Rating: ★★
May 12, 2009Intergalactic Adventures
J.J. Abrams revives the Star Trek franchise by recasting it with younger faces and rewriting continuity. But in the appeal to a hipper, sexier vibe, it feels a long way from Gene Roddenberry’s creation – nowhere in evidence is the original's concern with galactic politics and social issues of the day
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Raze (2013)

Raze (2013)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 24, 2015Abducted Girls Forced to Fight to the Death
Fifty girls have been abducted and are paired off and forced to fight to the death with their bare hands in an arena – essentially Saw by way of Girlfight. A tautly streamlined and grittily effective effort that succeeds modestly well at everything it sets out to do
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Inside (2016)

Inside (2016)
Rating: ★★
Sep 22, 2019Home Invasion/Pregnant Woman Pursued
The 2007 Inside in which a pregnant mother is pursued by a woman with a pair of scissors was one of the most brutal and harrowing viewing experiences amid the fad for so-called French Extremism. This is the English-language remake
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Pandemic (2016)

Pandemic (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 25, 2017Zombie First Person Shooter Found Footage Film
While the title leads you to expect a plague outbreak film, you soon discover this is a zombie film. What it is is a Found Footage film mounted as a First Person Shooter film at which you have to admit that it launches into action with considerable gusto and ferocity
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