Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The one where Sam Raimi snuck a horror movie into a Marvel release. Multiverse of Madness has dead bodies, demons, eyeball trauma, a full sequence scored to a two string musical fight, and a villain who does her murdering in…
The fan service event that earned its hysteria. Peter Parker’s secret identity is out, his college hopes are wrecked, and one spell asked of Doctor Strange goes wrong in the worst way: every visitor from every universe who knows Peter…
The Oscar winner’s swing that Marvel’s machine could not contain. Chloe Zhao made a 260 million dollar art film about ten immortal beings who have lived on Earth for seven thousand years, and the results are more interesting than they…
The martial arts entry, and the freshest thing Marvel had put out in years. Simu Liu arrives as Shang-Chi, a valet in San Francisco hiding a century of family history, and the movie spends its best hour on character comedy:…
The prequel nobody demanded, arriving five years too late and one pandemic after it mattered. Black Widow is set immediately after Civil War, when Natasha Romanoff was the MCU’s most wanted fugitive, which means the film is a flashback for…
The European vacation follow up, and the better for its smallness after Endgame. Peter Parker just wants to tell MJ how he feels on a class trip across the continent, and the universe keeps assigning him homework: a grief stricken…
The payoff. Twenty two movies of set up converge on a three hour funeral, heist, and revival that functions as both a war picture and a victory lap for the biggest ensemble ever assembled. The boldness is in the first…
The amnesia picture. Carol Danvers crashes into a Blockbuster Video in 1995 with no memory, powers she can’t explain, and a Kree handler telling her to control her emotions, and the movie spends its first hour as a sci-fi detective…
The palate cleanser Marvel scheduled between the two heaviest films it ever made, and it plays like exactly that: a light, quick, slightly anonymous caper about a house arrested dad, his ex, and a rescue mission into the quantum realm.…
Ten years of buildup cashed in one bet: make the villain the protagonist. Avengers: Infinity War is Thanos’s movie, and Josh Brolin’s motion captured Titan is the most fully inhabited CG performance of the era, a fanatic who believes he…