Tag: Marvel
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Madame Web
3 outta 5 Madame Web, the latest attempt by Sony pictures to spin-off multiple Spider-Man supporting characters into their own franchise is ok. Its not terrible or terrific. It has nifty moments, lots of pointless bits and is a tad too long even at under 2 hours. This is basically a supernatural vision of the…
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Best of 2023 Films
Honourable Mentions: Godzilla Minus One, Dream Scenario, Flash, Cocaine Bear, Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe, Asteroid City, Air, M3GAN, Next Goal Wins, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Evil Dead Rise, Sisu 10. The Creator Director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) creates a compelling narrative about humanity versus AI, and how the…
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The Marvels
4 outta 5 The Marvels is a fun and zippy movie, which is a bonus as superhero movies lately have been succumbing to bloat, but at an hour and forty-five minutes this is one of the shortest Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. While it may seem like “MCU homework”, or even worse as a plus sized…
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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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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (’18 review)
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a truly exuberant celebration of all things Spider-Man and showcasing innovative ways the animated format can collide with sequential comic art to make something really new and different. For all of the extradimensional bells and whistles and the cavalcade of deep cut Spider-Man continuity references it actually…
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Guardians of the Galaxy (’14 review)
4 outta 5 Even though Guardians of the Galaxy has the Marvel label, it’s not a superhero film. If the Marvel adaptations are to endure they need to branch out, so each of the “Phase 2” Marvel movies have dabbled in genre swapping. Now Guardians almost entirely disbands superhero tropes for an outer-space fantasy action…
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Spider-Man 3 (’07 review)
4 out of 5 The original Spider-Man film is pretty good: a dramatic and stirring adaptation of Spidey’s origin for the 1st half of the movie, then it goes on autopilot for the 2nd half with somewhat bland superheroics. Its sequel, Spider-Man 2, is fantastic. The amount of abuse shoveled onto Peter Parker is inspired,…
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