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Captain America

Bloodshot movie review: bloodshit

Thu, Mar 26, 2020
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Incoherent action sequences and strained sci-fi woo-woo can’t save a clueless mashup of Robocop, The Matrix, and Captain America that makes a mockery of its protagonist. Deeply terrible.

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Captain Marvel movie review: superpowered female SJW invites manbaby nerds to suck it

Sun, Mar 10, 2019
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An indie ethos comes to the comic-book movie, upending the origin story and offering a female superhero who throws out the boys’ rule book, goes her own way, and stalks among us with easy confidence.

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Mary Magdalene movie review: the Gospel of Mary

Fri, Mar 16, 2018
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A fiercely feminist and proudly revisionist historical drama that offers a powerful and much-needed rebuke to modern Christianity. Enrapturingly beautiful and intensely emotional.

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

Fri, Jul 07, 2017
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Thoroughly charming. Spider-Man’s signature light comedy works surprisingly well even as this story is uniquely steeped in the darker Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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curated: that whole “Captain America is a Nazi” thing is worse than I thought…

Fri, May 05, 2017
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Ouch, Marvel…

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Logan movie review: wounded Wolverine, dangerous beast

Mon, Feb 27, 2017
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The X-Men series — the entire superhero genre — has never seen a film like Logan before: raw, rageful, tormented, human. Best of the series yet.

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curated: we’re gonna have to be our own superhero

Mon, Feb 06, 2017
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“No, you move.”

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curated: comic books, now more than ever

Tue, Nov 22, 2016
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Fighting Nazis is an American tradition.

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from Facebook: woe unto those who disappoint Mr. Rogers…

Mon, Sep 12, 2016
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from Facebook: some badass Captain America cosplay

Thu, Aug 04, 2016
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