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  • The Crow (1994)
    Review preview for The Crow

    Full of gothic visuals and brooding melancholy, the bleak gloom is striking.

    Stephen Carty · 3 out of 5
    A restless soul comes back from the dead to seek vengeance.
  • Dark City (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City

    What [director Proyas] does here is juggle genres and lop the dead cells from the brains of old cliches.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Film noir plotting meets a fiendish science fiction underworld in an extravagant fantasy.
  • Dark City: Director's Cut (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City: Director's Cut

    A stylish and engrossing mystery - an immature, yet energetic explosion of storytelling ideas.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Extravagant sci-fi fantasy about a hunted man struggling with his memory gets a directorial polish.
  • I, Robot (2004)
    Review preview for I, Robot

    It's familiar stuff, but it's rarely been done with such polish and gusto.

    Gary Duncan · 4 out of 5
    Will Smith saves the world again, this time from robots.
  • Knowing (2009)
    Review preview for Knowing

    What at first seems a simple premise with a dumb-assed popcorn resolution might well unravel in your head into something altogether more resonant and perplexing (or not).

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    A boy finds a time capsule containing deadly predictions, leaving his professor father in a race to avert disaster.

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