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Bullet Train movie review: total derailment

Sat, Aug 06, 2022
8 comments

The cast is, on paper, terrific, but there’s nothing engaging in their bloody savagery. A misfire of a supposed action comedy, this mind-numbing mess is by turns grating, tedious, and infuriating.

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

Wed, Oct 02, 2019
313 comments

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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gendered abuse I have received

Thu, Mar 21, 2019
229 comments

Dude thinks calling me ugly somehow negates my review of Captain Marvel.

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

Thu, Aug 02, 2018
12 comments

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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Deadpool 2 movie review: kryptonite for superheroes

Fri, May 18, 2018
39 comments

This is the death of the comic-book movie. Or it should be. The savage, inhumane nihilism here says, Yup, comics haters are right: this is dangerous nonsense with no morality or redeeming qualities.

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