Black Adam has every trademark of a Snyder film: striking visuals, meaty men, undeveloped themes, epic lines that mean nothing, and filters.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Blonde’ is not what we want of Marilyn. It’s what we made of her.
Let’s face it, the world needs another Marilyn Monroe biopic about as much as we need another prestige film about the British royal family. Few Hollywood figures have been as thoroughly and exhaustively examined on film, with more than twenty actresses either playing Marilyn Monroe or playing characters that are …
Read More »‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ reminds us that we are limitless
Everything Everywhere All at Once shows just how far human creativity can go when unshackled by studio or artistic expectation.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Nope’ is more debate than dread
The brilliance of 'Nope' is that all interpretations are valid. The problem with 'Nope' is that interpretation makes suspense invalid.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Prey’ is better than the franchise from which it spawned
If there is any film that is far better than the franchise from which it spawned, it's Prey. Maybe in time, it too will be considered a classic.
Read More »REVIEW: The best description of ‘The Gray Man’ comes from Chris Evans’s character: “Boring”
Despite having the pieces of a good action film, the best description of the 'The Gray Man' comes from Chris Evan himself: Boring.
Read More »REVIEW: “Thor: Love and Thunder” wants you to love the MCU again
"Thor: Love and Thunder" tells us, just because you lost something doesn't mean you should close yourself off from everything.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is propaganda we can all enjoy
Rather than seeking to divide or show us at our worst, Top Gun: Maverick succeeds by bringing us together to show what we can be at our best.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Multiverse of Madness’ is definitely a Sam Raimi movie
'Multiverse of Madness' is at its best when it's less of Sam Raimi making an MCU movie, and more of the MCU making a Sam Raimi movie.
Read More »REVIEW: “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” is empty nostalgia
"Apollo 10 1/2" could have been a statement on the unreliability of memory. Instead, it's an animted episode of VH1's "I Love the 60's."
Read More »REVIEW: ‘The Batman’ is a film fighting itself
"The Batman" is not a revolutionary take on the character or the culture of our time. It doesn't provide clarity or meaning to our current moment. And it doesn't have to.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Uncharted,’ a game that wants to be a movie is now a movie that should be a game
Starting with Drake’s Fortune in 2007, Naughty Dog’s Uncharted video game franchise has become renowned for its effective storytelling, impressive setpieces, and memorable characters. Inspired by adventure novels, pulp magazines, and the Indiana Jones and National Treasure movies, the game and resultant franchise of the first popular examples of a …
Read More »Pop Mythology’s 10 Best Movies of 2021
I think we can all agree that 2021 was an extremely divisive year. Beginning, for Americans at least, with an event that, even a year later, half the country still doesn’t think happened the way the entire country saw it happen, the first year of the new decade saw greater …
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Don’t Look Up’ is the most terrifying film of the year
The biggest joke in 'Don't Look Up' is that the film is a comedy. It is not. It is a horror film. It is perhaps the most terrifying horror film of the last decade.
Read More »REVIEW: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ gets Peter Parker right
If there is one thing that No Way Home gets absolutely right it is Peter Parker. Whether people know about him, care about him, or have no idea he even exists, he never stops trying to help. He is and always has been the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man no matter who played him then, now, or into the future.
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