Black Widow is perfectly enjoyable, but it never lives up to the weight of expectation.
It remains to be seen if Gillen can actually make the Eternals work. But this is perhaps as good a start as we could have hoped for.
There’s stuff to like about Wonder Woman 1984, and some stuff to dislike, but it is all spoiled by one horrible, horrible plot thread.
New Mutants for Old: The wonder of it is how they took so long applying finishing touches—and still managed to make it look like it was banged out over a weekend by film students at university!
I really wanted to like this movie a lot. So why didn’t I?
Joker is not a bad movie, nor is it unworthy of your attention. But it is not the work of genius that it so desperately wishes it were.
Leaving the audience wanting more is one thing, but leaving them unsatisfied, while sadly all too commonplace these days, is quite another.
After decades of cosplay which should have inured us against this, Gadot doesn’t look like she’s dressed up as Wonder Woman – she just looks like Wonder Woman. In a film about an icon, she looks iconic.
Yes, it’s fun… but in a smug, arch way that prevents it from being anywhere near as much fun as it clearly thinks it is.
What happens when superheroes grow old? Logan addresses that question.
