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Argylle movie review: just argh

Fri, Feb 09, 2024

A vacuous multitentacled exercise in pop-culture marketing, and a crass, confused, charmless showcase for Matthew Vaughn’s goes-to-11 hyperactive “style” of unconvincing CGI and frenetic fight scenes.

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.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie review: here we go again

Tue, Jul 24, 2018

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Masterful. I had so much fun with this, often laughing out loud in relief when the tension of a breathless action scene finally broke. So why am I feeling a bit meh about it?

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.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie review: sucker punch

Mon, Mar 28, 2016

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Like a movie from the world of Watchmen: cold, cruel, borderline incoherent in its testosterone-fueled rage, misogynist, paternalistic… fascist, even.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie review: Cold War, lukewarm

Fri, Aug 14, 2015

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Guy Ritchie’s spy-themed GQ fashion shoot. Pure popcorn nonsense, sleek and chic and vaguely funny, but instantly forgettable.

Man of Steel review: man of feel

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

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Towers with ambition, swelled by sweeping philosophies about power and presence on scales both planetary and personal, beautifully balanced by a wellspring of wry tragedy.