Category: DC
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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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Joker: Folie à Deux
3 outta 5 Joker: Folie à Deux is an even stranger sequel to an already strange film. While the first film is heavily influenced by the classic work of Martin Scorsese, this goes more in an unexpected direction. It is sort of a musical, but not really because a lot is mumble singing and none…
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Joker (2019 review)
4 outta 5 The DC Comics superhero movies have been a bit of a mixed bag of an extended universe of interconnected movies. DC Comics latest film, Joker, shuns being a part of a universe and stands apart as a dark, disturbing, character piece about the origin of the Batman villain. Its influences are not…
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
3 outta 5 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is apparently the final entry in the latest version of the DC Cinematic Universe that (retroactively) started with Man of Steel with yet another DC universe reboot on the horizon. The slate 2023 of DC films, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, The Flash and Blue Beetle, has…
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Merry Little Batman
4 outta 5 While Batman and Christmas may not seem like a pairing that goes together, there are a bunch of Batma/Christmas stories. Probably the most well-known is the Christmas set Batman Returns, but there’s also the ‘90s Batman animated episode Christmas with the Joker, the Christmas issue of Long Halloween, a badass one-shot issue…
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Blue Beetle
4 outta 5 After the somewhat haphazard results of Shazam: Fury of the Gods and The Flash, DC films continues its somewhat disconnected 2023 film output with Blue Beetle. This is an engaging origin story crowd pleaser that may crib a few things directly from the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, intentionally or not. A lot…
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The Flash
4 outta 5 The Flash arrives on a wave of behind-the-scenes thespian controversy and unreasonable hype after Warner Bros studio executives in advance proclaimed it one of the greatest superhero movies ever made. Also, 2023 had genuinely great superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and just two weeks ago, Spider-Man: Across the…
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Black Adam (’22 review)
3 outta 5 Black Adam, the latest DC superhero movie in the DC Extended Universe, is more of Shazam! sequel than the marketing admits. However, it is somewhat irritating that the Wizard Shazam is here, the magic transformation word “Shazam!” is said a whole bunch but Shazam himself isn’t mentioned or appears. The movie closely…
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The Suicide Squad (’21 review)
5 outta 5 Writer/director James Gunn delved into the Marvel universe with Guardians of the Galaxy and now he crosses the street to the DC Universe with The Suicide Squad. The result is engaging, messy, hilarious, and oddly kind of joyous war movie crossed with comic book superheroes. With a sprawling cast of characters, each…
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