Category: DC
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League (’21 review)
3 outta 5 Zack Snyder may be credited as the director of 2017’s Justice League but for him that movie remained unfinished. Snyder suffered a personal tragedy and was fending off studio interference from Warner Brothers so he left the movie which was completed with multiple reshoots by Avengers director Joss Whedon. Years later, Snyder’s…
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Wonder Woman 1984 (’21 review)
3 out of 5 Wonder Woman 1984 is a lot a movie but a lot doesn’t mean bad. At worst it is an ambitious mess. Although there is definitely a bit too much in here that doesn’t quite sustain its way too long two and a half hour running time. WW84’s failure is sequel bloat…
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Birds of Prey (’20 review)
4 outta 5 Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was a striking character in Suicide Squad and she has gotten her own spin off movie in Birds of Prey And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. Yes, that is the full title. It may want to be a team up movie but the real star of…
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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…
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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…
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Man of Steel vs. This Is the End (’13 review)
There is a similar vibe to both the horror comedy This Is The End and the superhero reboot Man of Steel, that being that they’re fantasy movies where spectacularly large, world-destroying things happen. The happy coincidence is that they’re awesome. MAN OF STEEL 4 outta 5 In Man of Steel on the self-destructing alien planet…
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