Category: Marvel
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the 4th Spider-Man film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is probably more of a character drama than previous MCU Spider-Man movies. Considering that Homecoming is a high school coming-of-age comedy, Far From Home is a full-on sitcom road trip movie and No Way Home is a…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (’21 review)
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: No Way Home is a culmination of not only the Spider-Man story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe but also a full-on victory lap for all the Spider-Man movies. Considering the series kicked off with 2002’s Spider-Man and spawned about a dozen different films, that is a remarkably deep well to pull…
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (’19 review)
4 outta 5 Spider-Man: Far From Home is technically the 8th Spider-Man film (or 9th, give or take a Venom) and Far From Home proves he is still a viable character. By film rights owner Sony lending the character to Marvel Studios, it has allowed Spider-Man to be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (’17 review)
4 outta 5 There have been numerous attempts at Spider-Man since 2002. After diminishing returns on the (unjustly maligned) The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sony, who holds the movie rights to Spider-Man, came to an agreement with Marvel to restart the character (again) and integrate him into the creatively fertile, and mega box office earning, Marvel…
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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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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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