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Emmet Asher-Perrin

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Biography:

Emmet Asher-Perrin is the Entertainment Editor of Reactor, where they've been reviewing films and television since 2011. You can find more of their work in books like Queers Dig Time Lords, Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction.

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Movies TV Shows
Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Just, stop sleeping on these beautiful realities that have such chicken butt lamps in them.” – Reactor Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “Parts of Eternity are deeply enjoyable, but in a world where these sort of romantic comedies (being the sort where death and love intersect in silly ways) number far higher than you might expect, I was hoping for just a tiny bit more deconstruction.” – Reactor Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “What seems “meant to be” rarely plays out as we anticipate. The fact that many of us were elated at the idea of Guillermo del Toro adapting the arguable first work of the science fiction canon may have been a warning in and of itself.” – Reactor Oct 20, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “It seems as though, with the advent of highly advanced computer graphics, designers have lost a step in how to imagine this world[...] What sort of design should the filmmakers emulate, and does it even matter if everything can look hyper-realistic?” – Reactor Oct 14, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “There’s a problem with this film, in that it falls under a list of movies I’ll call: This Should Have Been a Play.” – Reactor Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Artemis Fowl (2020) 8% EDIT “While Artemis Fowl, Jr. (Ferdia Shaw) does say those exact words—“I’m a criminal mastermind”—at the end of the film, there is nothing in the movie that explains why Artemis might think that or why the audience should believe him.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Old Guard (2020) 80% EDIT “[The Old Guard] is easily one of the better films of this genre in the past decade, and deserved a theatrical release. It also deserves a sequel, so do the world a solid and add to their ratings by giving it a watch.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Project Power (2020) 61% EDIT “While there are a few superhero stories on screen that haven’t shied away from the issue of medical experimentation, none have tackled the idea with such an eye toward truth as Project Power.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Save Yourselves! (2020) 89% EDIT “For a ninety minute comedy that can ultimately be read as a metaphor for unyielding Millennial angst, there’s a lot to unpack, but that’s part of what makes it such a fun ride.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Craft: Legacy (2020) 47% EDIT “The Craft: Legacy never quite lives up to its promise. It’s distressing because there is a lot of charm between its frames, working hard to wriggle its way out and steal a little sun.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) 57% EDIT “It would have been far more effecting to have simply suggested that Diana was having a rough go in the 80s; despite how much fun making nostalgic movies can be, it’s likely that Diana would have had difficulty in the “decade of excess."” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Luca (2021) 91% EDIT “If the creators of Luca had paused for a moment to realize the accidental allegory emerging in their story, they could have done some restructuring and told a tale they’d truly never told before.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Black Widow (2021) 79% EDIT “ Black Widow proves that Natasha always had what it took to hold up her own corner of the MCU and then some—it just took the assembling (ahem) of a team that cared enough to tell her story.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Dune (2021) 83% EDIT “Ultimately, much of what is presented in this first half is perplexing because it’s unclear what changes to the story are being made. It is possible that as a whole, Dune will read far better, but we can’t know until the second half arrives.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Eternals (2021) 47% EDIT “Eternals is [...] packed with a bunch of charming characters, pointed flashbacks, and gorgeous locations, but [...] needed to be at least two movies and says some alarming things about the state of humanity without seeming to realize that it’s doing so.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 93% EDIT “Despite the film’s often lighthearted nature, there are certain problems that don’t have easy fixes. Certain battles that won’t be won the way you thought. There are losses that you’ll have to absorb along the way, though they might turn you inside out.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Matrix Resurrections (2021) 63% EDIT “It’s beautiful, and naturally ironic, that a film that spends so much time deconstructing how art effects consciousness, how love and grief alter perception, almost never came to be: How it had to be catalyzed by grief and completed out of love.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Batman (2022) 85% EDIT “It’s too bad because the unwillingness to scratch at some deeper thoughts about Batman’s cultural positioning leaves us with… an almost-decent neo-noir knockoff.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) 63% EDIT “While Ragnarok might still be the stronger film in a more technical sense, Love and Thunder is a worthy addition to Waititi’s oeuvre, and a welcome shot in the arm to the MCU’s ever-homogenizing options.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) 49% EDIT “All of this is made more awkward still by the same problem we had in the first Shazam movie—namely that Zachary Levi (as the titular hero) and Asher Angel seem to be playing two completely different versions of Billy Batson.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 71% EDIT “Dial of Destiny is by no means a return to form. It’s only half of a good movie, in fact. But that half, funny enough, is still lingering in my mind.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “The possibility of evolution arises, and Barbie the movie finds itself asking the question very few films seem ready to pose of late: What if humanity is the goal, not the pitstop, or a thing to be hacked and overcome?” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Creator (2023) 67% EDIT “When all is said and done, The Creator is not the answer to our over-franchised future than some might have hoped.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Marvels (2023) 63% EDIT “Hiccups aside, The Marvels is a delightful journey that’s high on laughs, space-faring adventure, and three women who deserve a lot more attention from the MCU.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) 64% EDIT “It’s only unfortunate that behind Panem’s greatest tyrant is another whose motives seem far less complex, in an exercise that is arguably about recognizing the humanity of even the most odious people.” – Reactor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review
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