Movie Reviews4.7/10
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Turns a Good Pitch Into a Miss
A review of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, wherein Billy and his siblings confront the Daughters of Atlas — a tale of disappointment.
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Tag: superhero films
Movie Reviews4.3/10
Six Years On, The New Mutants Still Feels Like a Premature Ending to a Story It Never Finished
A grim tale of five young mutants trapped within a secret house, doomed by their own dread powers, reviewed.
Movie Reviews5.4/10
Ang Lee’s Hulk Is a $245.3 Million Experiment That Never Decides What It Wants to Be
Ang Lee's Hulk (2003) was a $245.3M experiment with Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly that never decided what it wanted to be.
Movie Reviews6.8/10
Batman Returns: A Strange, Self-Indulgent Christmas in Gotham
Tim Burton's Batman Returns, a Christmas movie about a Penguin raised in sewers, Catwoman, and Max Shreck — a rewatch review scoring 6.8/10.
Movie Reviews3.9/10
Green Lantern: A $200 Million Lesson in Willpower Without a Will
Green Lantern (2011) review: Ryan Reynolds, a $200M budget, and a franchise that never found its ending.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable Is a Superhero Origin Story That Refuses to Feel Like One
Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan's 2000 superhero film, opens with a birth and a number, and asks whether David Dunn's survival of a train wreck means anything.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
The Fantastic Four Movie That Gave Its Heroes Nothing to Do
A critical look at Tim Story's 2005 Fantastic Four: its $333.5M gross, negative reviews, Brooklyn Bridge scene, cut Wolverine cameo, and why the villain fails.
Movie Reviews6.8/10
X2 Turns Mutant Rights Into a War Story
X2 review: Nightcrawler attacks the White House, Stryker invades Xavier's school, and Wolverine hunts his past. A sequel that widens the mutant argument.
Movie Reviews5.3/10
Twelve Years On, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Still Runs Too Long
A bloated sequel with a stiff lead, a confused plot, and a train crash that buries the tragedy.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Sam Raimi Turned a Superhero Into a Guy Who Can’t Catch a Break
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) review: Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, and the origin story that built the modern superhero template.
Movie Reviews7/10
Captain America: The First Avenger Review: A Solid, Well-Cast Origin Story
Captain America: The First Avenger review — how Marvel's 2011 origin story made us care about Steve Rogers before the shield, and where it stumbles.
Movie Reviews7.7/10
The Suit Is Not the Story: Why Iron Man Still Works 18 Years On
Iron Man (2008) review: Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, and the cave in Afghanistan that made Marvel's first self-financed film a movie star.