Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
“Your brother is with the ancestors.” Intimate and epic. Bold, colorful, otherworldly, built with great scale and by a collective of inspired eyes. This flawed yet grieving film is rich […]
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Otherhood (2019)
“I was a girl before I was your mother.” What’s most disappointing about Otherhood – besides wasting the time of its three talented leading ladies – is that the film has […]
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
“”I know I said no more surprises, but I was really hoping to pull off one last one.” To say that I’ve never seen another film quite like Avengers: Endgame would […]
Bumblebee (2018)
“People can be terrible about things they don’t understand.” 2007’s Transformers was good fun, a blockbuster in the purest meaning of the phrase, and a big-budget adventure that was far […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
“There has never been peace without first a great suffering.” One of the best action films of the 21st Century and perhaps one of the greatest ever made, Mission: Impossible – […]
Black Panther (2018)
“It’s hard for a good man to be King.” While terribly timely and invaluably important for modern moviegoers, not least of which are those whose African culture is finally being […]
London Has Fallen (2016)
“Vengeance has always been profound and absolute.” London Has Fallen is at once a stupid, silly, self-serious action adventure wearing a Kevlar-plated heart of gold. And it’s also another entry into the […]
Chi-Raq (2015)
“Americans like war. They like guns. Fun and games.” Leave it to Spike Lee to make a movie for our time through Old Greek Comedy influence. By retelling Aristophanes’ Lysistrata […]
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