Super 8 (2011)

 

A Goonies gang accidentally captures government secrets on their Super 8 camera as they make a zombie film, and while the kids revel in making their zombie movie, you get the sense director J J Abrams himself is revelling in making  the sort of movie Spielberg made in the 80s with kids on an adventure  in a richly detailed small-town America, but J J Abrams is also paying homage to the paranoid scifi invasion B-movies of the 50s and this dual, conflicting purpose strips some Spielberg heart from the kids' adventure.

★★★☆☆

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A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Have your eyelids toothpicked open while The Secret plays on repeat OR have as much fun watching this Disney fantasy as it incessantly hammers its positive psychology message - that's everything - while all else - logic and plot, story and watchability, even basic sense - is nothing. 

★☆☆☆☆

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