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Batman

my picks for tonight’s 95th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2022’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 13, 2023
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I correctly guessed 13 out of the 23 categories, which is a little better than how I did last year.

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OFCS 2022 awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 24, 2023
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Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with six wins; The Banshees of Inisherin takes fours awards. Twelve films overall earned awards.

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The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat

Sun, Mar 06, 2022
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No snark, no spandex pantomime spectacle. Just noir mystery, Pattinson’s sad recluse a detective in a cesspit of corruption. Relentlessly grim, all darkness and despair, not escapist but of our time.

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Joker movie review: sad clown, bad clown, not at all a rad clown

Wed, Oct 02, 2019
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Not fit to lick the boots of Martin Scorsese or Christopher Nolan, though the height of its ambition appears to be its desperation to do so. A movie as pathetically ineffectual as its protagonist.

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Shazam! movie review: unmarvelous

Tue, Apr 02, 2019
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Nothing matters in this literal adolescent-male power fantasy, a cheesy mishmash of nonsense and low stakes. Anyone who needs at least a bit of meat in their superhero tales will be disappointed.

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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie review: the last action heroes (to get a movie)

Thu, Aug 02, 2018
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The superhero movie we need, and also the one we karmically deserve. A riot of hilariously zippy animation that gleefully shreds the clichés of the genre while also lovingly embracing its self-referential geek experience.

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Ready Player One movie review: trivial pursuit*

Thu, Mar 29, 2018
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A nightmare of nothingness, of empty, soulless wankery, that serves only to reassure male dorks that their pop-culture obsessions make them special, and will make cute girls like them.

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Justice League movie review: grab ’em by the fanboy

Fri, Nov 17, 2017
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The cinematic equivalent of Trump and Brexit as awfulness brought upon ourselves. Incoherent and cheap-looking. There are no heroes, and everything is broken.

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American Assassin movie review: we’ve CIAn it all before

Sun, Sep 17, 2017
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It’s tormented hotheads all around with a hero and villain who are almost indistinguishable and same-old spy stuff racing to a seen-it, been-there ticking-clock finale.

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curated: be vewy vewy quiet: Elmer Fudd is hunting Batman

Mon, Jun 26, 2017
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Um…

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