Star Wars: A New Hope
There is a reason every space movie since 1977 has been chasing this one. George Lucas took the serial adventure format nobody took seriously and built a galaxy around it, complete with dirty used futures, a villain in a black…
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The first family, finally in the right hands. Marvel’s third attempt at the Fantastic Four plants them in a gorgeous retrofuturist 1960s, a Kennedy era New York with chrome rockets, analog televisions, and a public that treats its heroes like…
Thunderbolts*
The B team movie that outperformed its pedigree. Thunderbolts* gathers the franchise’s leftovers: Florence Pugh’s Yelena, Wyatt Russell’s disgraced U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko’s Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman’s hollow legged Bob, and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky, now a congressman with a stainless steel…
Captain America: Brave New World
The movie that kept getting taken apart and reassembled in public. Brave New World went through multiple rounds of reshoots and a title change, and the released cut plays like a committee arguing with itself: a political thriller about a…
Deadpool & Wolverine
The rude middle finger the franchise needed after five years of drift. Deadpool & Wolverine pairs Ryan Reynolds’ merc with the mouth with Hugh Jackman’s Logan one more time, and the film’s premise is openly a corporate satire: Wade Wilson…
The Marvels
The shortest Marvel movie ever made, which turns out to be both its identity and its epitaph. The Marvels runs 105 minutes, and it moves like a pilot for a series that was canceled mid production: three heroes, one villain,…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The farewell that earned its tears. James Gunn’s last Marvel movie before the DC jump is a story about Rocket, and the film spends its flashbacks on the raccoon’s origin: a lab, a madman called the High Evolutionary, and three…
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The slump’s textbook. Quantumania sends the whole Ant-Man family into the quantum realm, a greenscreen city of bobble headed creatures and bioluminescent rocks, and spends two hours there without a single location that feels touchable. The charm of the first…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The elegy. Ryan Coogler’s sequel was rewritten around the death of Chadwick Boseman, and the film carries that weight openly: it opens with Shuri racing to synthesize a cure that arrives too late, then spends its first act in mourning…
Thor: Love and Thunder
The comedy overdose. Taika Waititi doubled the Ragnarok formula and broke it: where the 2017 film used jokes to cut the epic, Love and Thunder uses epic as an excuse for jokes, and nearly every dramatic beat gets undercut within…