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weekend watchlist: sweet, funny, frank pillow talk

Tue, Oct 11, 2022

Plus apocalyptic adolescence, exasperating planetary levels of bureaucracy, and more… (First published September 10th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

Onward movie review: the Pixar road goes ever on

Fri, Mar 06, 2020

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Don’t let the Pixar curve throw you: familiar this quest may be, but it’s full of magic and wonder and humor and melancholy, and set in a fully realized fantasy world. Not a masterpiece but very good.

Avengers: Endgame movie review: with a bang and a whimper

Wed, May 01, 2019

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A miraculous blend of grief and humor. Big, bold, brash, then sneakily meta. I am only starting to get my head around the emotional and creative right-hook of it. A fitting end (for now) to the MCU.

Avengers: Infinity War movie review: it’s all been leading to this

Fri, Apr 27, 2018

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Ten years of Marvel superheroism culminates in a battle for the universe itself. Exhausting, bitterly humorous, and gripped in a stunning finality, it’s almost too much to take in, yet somehow not enough.

Pilgrimage movie review: faith in a time of weaponized religion

Thu, Aug 24, 2017

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Moody, atmospheric, even beautiful in its grimness; a medieval adventure unlike any we’ve seen before, with a sharp attention to psychological and moral realism.

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.

Captain America: Civil War movie review: the consequences of superpowers

Fri, Apr 29, 2016

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Tough, unanswerable human questions frame spectacular, innovative action sequences that are like superhero ballets. This series just keeps getting better.