Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Justice League (’17 review)
4 outta 5 After much fretting, box office, “Martha!”, and lines in the sand between Marvel’s Avengers and DC’s heroes, the eventual result is DC’s Justice League. Happily, this is a sturdy and entertaining superhero ensemble movie. The DC movies have been a bit mixed. Man of Steel has a great hook as a space…
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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…
