Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Wonder Woman (’17 review)

4 outta 5 Wonder Woman is a pretty exceptional superhero movie that is surprisingly, and thankfully, light on cross-universe continuity references and instead is a straightforward, throwback, standalone adventure. This is certainly different from the last two entries in the DC Movie Universe, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad which were awash…
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Suicide Squad (’16 review)

4 outta 5 Suicide Squad by David Ayer (End of Watch, Fury), like most of his work, is about a squad of no-good misfit scoundrels forced to do good. The movie isn’t perfect, some bits are awesome and some bits are clunky, and has a now very standard “save the world by getting to the big…
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (’16 review)

3 outta 5 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a glorious mess. The preceding film, Man of Steel, made Superman into a space alien disaster movie. Odd fit but it worked. Batman v Superman doesn’t have a guiding principle. Instead it takes a shotgun blast approach to characters, storylines, structure and pacing. But for…