Tag: Movie Reviews
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Mickey 17
5 outta 5 Writer and director Bong Joon Ho, who won Best Director and Best Picture for Parasite, has a very diverse set of films. He is interested in themes like class struggle, environmental challenges, and settings like sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, action and monsters like his movies The Host, Snowpiercer and Okja. So as wild and…
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Captain America: Brave New World
4 outta 5 Captain America: Brave New World is the 4th Captain America movie, coming almost 9 years after the superlative Captain America: Civil War, with this one featuring a new character as Cap. The trade was in Avengers: Endgame, when Steve Rogers gave Sam Wilson the shield, so probably everyone knows why Sam is…
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Eternals (2021 review)
3 outta 5 Newly minted best picture writer/director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) is the latest filmmaker to take on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Eternals. The MCU has always mashed up different genres with a superhero twist and Eternals turns out to be the MCU’s attempt at a picturesque art-house indie with a lush visual tapestry…
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Captain America: Civil War (2016 review)
5 outta 5 While the superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been causing destruction in the name of freedom for years in Captain America: Civil War consequences are dealt with. It keeps the Captain America series fresh by swapping styles yet again; the First Avenger was a two-fisted World War II epic, Winter Soldier…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014 review)
4 outta 5 With Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World spinning off from The Avengers, they can’t work without that chunk of the puzzle. While Captain America: The Winter Soldier plays directly with leftover pieces of Avengers via the super-spy organization S.H.I.E.L.D. it is actually more of a sequel to Captain America: The…
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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011 review)
4 outta 5 While Captain America: The First Avenger does threaten to drown in patriotism at times, overall it’s a neat WWII-era twist on the superhero formula. And the last 20 minutes downright rock. Also: Hugo Weaving as a bad guy is never a bad idea. And if you know your Marvel Cinematic Universe Easter…
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The Incredible Hulk (2008 review)
3 outta 5 2003’s Hulk was darkly psychological, gleefully weird, and something of a failure. So now, The Incredible Hulk is Marvel’s newest take on the big green machine and much more commercially palatable. This Hulk is also kind of uneven, but not in the bug-eyed crazy way its predecessor was. Instead, Incredible Hulk has…
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Love Hurts
3 outta 5 Love Hurts is a straightforward action romp that gets by on some zippy and messy action scenes and a likable lead. It is sort of rudimentary in its plot, the cliché of a gaggle of elite assassins with each more deadly and quirky than the next is worn out, and the unsuspecting…
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Companion
4 outta 5 Companion is a clever and subversive sci-fi horror thriller about romance, robots, murder and software manipulation. While the notion of someone falling in love with a robotic artificial intelligence has been done in films like Her or Ex Machina, this is still a distinct take. Companion is less about potential robotic apocalypse…
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Star Trek: Section 31
3 outta 5 Star Trek: Section 31 is the latest entry in the Star Trek film franchise that comes about 9 years after Star Trek Beyond, which is the longest gap between Star Trek movies ever since 1979. And this isn’t even a theatrical release, it’s a streaming film that is a spin off from…
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