Category: comic books
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Iron Man Three (2013 review)
4 outta 5 The thing with Marvel’s The Avengers was that it was an uber-superhero movie that blew the genre wide open by being 6 superhero flicks. Iron Man 3 is singular but ambitious since this is kind of indie action thriller with flying robot suits. At times the movie’s determination to strip Iron Man…
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Fantastic Four: First Steps
5 outta 5 After three 20th Century Fox movies and one buried Roger Corman film, the 4th version of Marvel’s First Family in Fantastic Four: First Steps absolutely nails it. It is fairly disconnected from the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe (despite that teaser at the end of Thunderbolts*) and has its own unique vibe. This…
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Fant4stic (2015 review)
2 outta 5 In the long, long ago of the early 1990s, there was a movie called The Fantastic Four that was made simply so a studio could hang onto the license. Now history repeats itself. The primary reason the most recent Fantastic Four film exists is so another movie studio, 20th Century Fox, can…
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (’07 review)
1 outta 5 When I sat down to watch Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I thought “Okay, Director Tim Story, try and wow me.” This was a cynical response to having suffered through the original Fantastic Four movie. However, shockingly, the opening of this sequel immediately wowed me. The first shot involves a…
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Fantastic Four (2005 review)
2 outta 5 Fantastic Four is a cookie-cutter superhero movie. Insert Origin Plot A, mix liberally with a climatic fight with supervillian Plot B, stir and serve. There’s hardly any superheroing done in the flick until the very end. Nothing is driving the movie, aside from a laundry list of explanations about superpowers, complaints about…
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Superman
4 outta 5 As the world continues to spin, a newly rebooted Superman film is upon us once again, but happily this Superman is great. There are a lot of super characters throughout the film, but they are supporting characters (aside from one or two gratuitous cameos) so it doesn’t feel like overwhelmingly enforced superhero…
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Superman Returns (2006 review)
3 out of 5 Absent from the silver screen for decades, Superman flies back with Superman Returns. The movie is well meaning and earnest, just like Supes. Returns is a visual feast, wonderful to watch, and has FX moments that will leave your jaw on the floor. But it trips up a few times with…
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Thunderbolts*
4 outta 5 Thunderbolts* is a sturdy entry into the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it works surprisingly well as a standalone adventure, which is quite the trick as it’s part of an ongoing saga and a significant chunk of characters here were introduced in Disney Plus exclusive releases. It is also funny and madcap…
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Spider-Man 3 (’07 review)
4 out of 5 The original Spider-Man film is pretty good: a dramatic and stirring adaptation of Spidey’s origin for the 1st half of the movie, then it goes on autopilot for the 2nd half with somewhat bland superheroics. Its sequel, Spider-Man 2, is fantastic. The amount of abuse shoveled onto Peter Parker is inspired,…
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