The Batman (2022)
“They think I’m hiding in the shadows.” A grueling labor of love in its conception but mostly unfulfilling in its delivery, The Batman is a grandiose film made on a […]
“They think I’m hiding in the shadows.” A grueling labor of love in its conception but mostly unfulfilling in its delivery, The Batman is a grandiose film made on a […]
“Alright, let’s do this one last time.” I’ve only read one comic book in my life. Pretty sure it came with a Happy Meal, now that I think of it. […]
“It’s clear you’re frustrated and so are we.” Like one of those stale, one-man restaurant magic acts that accosts your dinner table during a family vacation, The Crimes of Grindelwald overstays its […]
“Everything that has ever been stolen was something that was just sitting there.” There’s a surprising amount of grittiness to Kin, a movie that presents a story perfectly suitable for the […]
“You’re the one who remembers things.” Unknowingly retailing itself as a cheap alternative and derivative take on the classic noir genre, Gemini has all of the right looks and hardly any of […]
“This is going to be the biggest weekend of our lives.” The conceit is simple: remove the dark parody of 1998’s macabre Very Bad Things but maintain a similar plot, then […]
“Batman works alone.” From its impressively staged opening sequence to the final scene, The LEGO Batman Movie leaps off the high dive of hilarity and performs a cannonball into the canon […]
“Revenge doesn’t change anything.” At this point, with one more chapter still left doomed to fail, the Divergent Series feels like a set of quadruplets thrust into the hamfisted hands […]
“You look miles away.” As a whole, Good Kill reflects the overall scope of its military drone driven story, meaning that it is entirely too distant. That’s simply the nature of a […]
“This is creative. This shows that I’m different.” Movies, with rarely any exception, have three acts. The first is the set-up, the introduction to the characters and the world. Second […]