Category: Superman
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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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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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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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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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