Category: Movie Reviews
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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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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
3 outta 5 The 7th movie in the Transformers live action movie series feels quite a lot like other ones, wherein Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has a lot of mayhem and some shallow lip service human characters. The film series has been a little topsy turvy in terms of quality; the first movie is…
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Transformers: The Last Knight (’17 review)
3 outta 5 Transformers: The Last Knight is what one would expect from a Transformers movie, it’s too damn long, a dopey and unnecessarily convoluted plot, really loud acting and giant robot smashing. The movie skips around so much from different locales and tones that it almost has the vibe of an abstract, crazy art…
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (’14 review)
3 outta 5 Michael Bay, director of The Rock, Pearl Harbour, two Bad Boys and now four Transformers movies, defiantly in his last Transformer outing, Dark of the Moon, broke his toys and walked away, seemingly forever. Until, that is, his most recent entry, Transformers: Age of Extinction. This instalment doesn’t reach the heights of…
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (’11 review)
3 out of 5 There is entertainment in the bloated, tonally confused and downright excessive threequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The script isn’t as clever as the first flick which slowly revealed the giant transforming robots however its story is much more coherent than the second one. It also provides the requisite amount of…
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (’09 review)
3 out of 5 Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen suffers from sequel bloat. By being bigger it loses what made the original special. The flick bogs down in tedious plot diversions and some really lame characters, but what sells Revenge is unhinged destructiveness. Are we so cynical that we can’t enjoy a three-story robot running…
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Transformers (’07 review)
4 out of 5 For some reason, “summer blockbuster” has become a bit of a dirty word. It implies all flash and no substance. With Transformers, directed by Mr. All-Flash And No Substance Himself, Michael Bay, and its based on a Hasbro toy-line, one would assume that it’s a typical summer blockbuster with “all flash…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a fantastic sequel to the already fantastic Into the Spider-Verse. It takes the incredible animation style of the first film and evolves into several different visually lush and amazing looking universes. The film has huge dramatic beats and large-scale action, but it also remembers to keep things…
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