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Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, and Charles S. Dutton star in this creature feature about evolved cockroaches that threaten to overtake New York City. Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) admits that the film’s narrative was watered down by a series of studio concessions, but it still highlights his visual flair and palpable atmosphere. The creature work is an admirable combination of puppetry and computer-generated imagery and the score by Marco Beltrami sustains a sense of dread. In the end, Mimic fails to scrape beneath the surface of a B-monster movie. But if a monster movie is all you need, you could do a lot worse.