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Red Sparrow movie review: undercovers agent

Thu, Mar 01, 2018
34 comments

Ballerina turned whore-spy? This is like a cheap porn scenario, and the Hollywood gloss makes it worse. Risible yet tedious, yet another movie by men that thinks it’s critiquing misogyny yet is indistinguishable from it.

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Black Panther movie review: absolute Marvel

Thu, Feb 15, 2018
63 comments

Classic comic-book stuff made fresh by drawing on underexplored mythologies and cultures, yet still deeply resonant and deeply universal. An exhilarating pulp-fiction dream that ups the ante on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Thor: Ragnarok movie review: it’s only the end of the world

Fri, Oct 27, 2017
11 comments

Breezy, jokey, crammed with clever sci-fi ideas; the funniest MCU flick yet. Director Taika Waititi brings a new geeky verve we didn’t realize the series needed.

| 11 Comments

Spider-Man: Homecoming movie review: boys and their alien toys

Fri, Jul 07, 2017
50 comments

Thoroughly charming. Spider-Man’s signature light comedy works surprisingly well even as this story is uniquely steeped in the darker Marvel Cinematic Universe.

| 50 Comments

Sully movie review: he’s good people (and so is everyone else)

Fri, Dec 02, 2016
7 comments

The ultimate anti-disaster movie. A supremely gripping and powerfully emotional film about, paradoxically, what happens when everything works as it should.

| 7 Comments

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows movie review: shell schlock

Mon, May 30, 2016
87 comments

Leaden and witless, though it obviously believes there is humor in its loud, chaotic juvenility. It would be an insult to cartoons to call this cartoonish.

| 87 Comments

Ant-Man movie review: superhero reduction

Mon, Jul 13, 2015
80 comments

Marvel’s tiniest hero stars in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s smallest movie so far, one that loses Paul Rudd’s charm among familiar comic-book action.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron movie review: mad science fiction

Thu, Apr 23, 2015
106 comments

Not without problems, but continues the Avengers tradition of big, bold blockbusters that don’t need to toss away thoughtfulness to remain pure popcorn fun.

| 106 Comments

Kill the Messenger movie review: all the news that’s fit to quash

Fri, Mar 06, 2015
3 comments

A passionate and intense drama — fueled by a fierce Jeremy Renner — that furiously underscores the problem of lickspittle corporate “journalism.”

| 3 Comments

Kingsman: The Secret Service movie review: forgets its manners

Fri, Jan 30, 2015
418 comments

I cannot recall a film that left me with such a sour taste in my mouth by its end. Does the movie deliberately defy itself with obnoxious intent?

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