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The Suicide Squad is a Brutal, Demented and Fun Ride that Makes Great Use of its Extensive Cast
If you’re already familiar with director James Gunn’s work with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, you might expect the same from his take on The Suicide Squad. While there are some similarities- both feature a group of misfits forced…
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The Two Part Adaptation of Batman: the Long Halloween is One of the Best Comic Book Stories of the Last Five Years
There have been no shortage of animated adaptations of Batman’s seminal stories, from The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One and The Killing Joke to Batman: Under the Red Hood and Batman: Hush. While some of these adaptations have done…
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Loki is Marvel’s Weirdest Show Yet- Essentially, their Own Version of Doctor Who
Loki is perhaps the best salvo yet in Marvel’s new direction for its tv properties. It’s definitely the weirdest series so far, and it’s got the best of both worlds: largely self-contained for most of its runtime while still bearing…
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Black Widow is a Satisfying but Flawed Blockbuster that Chooses to be an Okay Superhero Story When it Could Have Been an Excellent Spy Story
After fans clamored for it for years, and a year-long delay due to the pandemic, Black Widow is finally here. It also marks the return of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the big screen after 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home.…
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Jupiter’s Legacy Falters in its First Season, Despite Strong Source Material
Jupiter’s Legacy arrives at a delicate time for superhero content. Two years past the triumphant conclusion of Avengers: Endgame, there are plenty of other properties vying to stand out from the rest. Some of them, like The Boys and Invincible,…
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Invincible Manages to Stand Out as a Superhero Story, Despite its Intentionally Standard Premise
Superhero fatigue has been talked about for years, but this is the first time I am experiencing it myself. Sure, there are some excellent adaptations out there such as The Boys, Doom Patrol and Umbrella Academy to a degree, but…
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is an Ambitious Superhero Story that Doesn’t Quite Achieve What it Sets Out to Do
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is interesting, in that it’s ambitious and bites off more than it can chew. The result is an entertaining, but flawed series that suffers from inconsistency and abandoned plotlines. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) decides…
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a Clear Improvement over the Original Cut, Despite its Massive Length
Zack Snyder’s Justice League has had a long and eventful road to its release on HBO Max. After Zack Snyder’s daughter Rose tragically passed away, the studio saw it as an opportunity to replace him with Joss Whedon, who had…
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Wandavision Takes a Unique Look at Grief through a Superhero Lens with a Clever Sitcom Backdrop
After thirteen years of movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe definitely needed a splash of freshness to make its future offerings seem enticing instead of tiring. Wandavision is a mostly successful exercise in that regard. It’s a show that’s both small…
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Wonder Woman 1984 Stumbles More Often than it Succeeds, Despite Some Good Performances
Originally slated for a December 2019 release, Wonder Woman 1984 has definitely had an interesting- and fraught- path to theaters and HBO Max. Due to the pandemic, it has become the only superhero movie release of 2020, and in a…
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