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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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In the Heart of the Sea movie review: here be monsters (and whales)

Wed, Dec 09, 2015
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Solid, old-school man-versus-nature adventure melodrama, with a simmering green awareness; rollicking, smart, breathtaking, and sobering.

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The Impossible (review)

Wed, Jan 16, 2013
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It’s a disaster movie, but not as we know it…

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Fright Night (great movie quotes)

Mon, Sep 19, 2011
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“That’s a terrible vampire name. ‘Jerry’?” –Charley (Anton Yelchin)… and more…

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Fright Night (review)

Mon, Aug 29, 2011
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It’s a rare thing, but sometimes digging up the past and giving it another spin is a good thing.

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