Category: Verdict: 3.5

The piece makes for solid entertainment, but only fans of the genre are likely to appreciate it.

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The Walking Dead 5.07: Crossed

In spite of AMC playing musical chairs with its writing staff, The Walking Dead has managed to keep up two traditions since its sophomore year: the deck-clearing mid-season cliffhanger and

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The Walking Dead 5.08: Coda

I’m really not sure what happened here: did Beth commit suicide by cop, or did she reveal herself a fundamentally stupid and selfish person in the end? After all

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The Walking Dead 5.11: The Distance

With only five episodes to go before the extended ninety-minute finale, The Walking Dead has got a lot of ground to cover if it means to deliver one last

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The Walking Dead 5.15: Try

I generally dread reviewing the penultimate episode of a season. What with the serialised nature of modern television and fan demand for an explosive finale, I might as well be judging the merits of

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The Walking Dead: Cold Storage

In light of last year’s Torn Apart, I found myself somewhat less than enthused at the prospect of another Internet spin-off of AMC’s The Walking Dead. The biggest problem

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

I suspect many will fault The X-Files: I Want to Believe for being a glorified television episode, which would be an odd criticism, given…

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Thor (2011)

If I had to sum up Thor in one word, I’d use “quaint”. This may come as a surprise to those familiar with the…

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Tomorrowland (2015)

With bloggers from the four corners of the Web claiming oppression from a single (admittedly awful) line in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and…

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Twilight (2008)

Nature’s a funny thing. As some of you know, I have a penis, which means it’s a matter of primal law that I reject…

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V 1.08: We Can’t Win

Anna: “You’ll get to see progress being made firsthand.” Now this is more like it. “We Can’t Win” delivers everything I’d come to expect…

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