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This one exists because fans would not stop asking for it, and the strangest part is that the campaign actually worked: a studio funded a four hour recut of a 2017 flop, Snyder restored his footage, shot a cameo epilogue,…
The first Wonder Woman earned goodwill the old way, by being good. The sequel spends all of it. Wonder Woman 1984 opens with a thrilling Amazon games prologue that promises big cheerful adventure, then settles into 151 minutes of plot…
The full title is Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and the movie mostly lives up to that subtitle: this is Harley’s breakup picture, a neon splattered romp about a woman setting off on her…
Whatever you expected from a Joker origin movie, Todd Phillips delivered something closer to a 70s character study than a comic book film. Joaquin Phoenix lost an alarming amount of weight to play Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill party clown…
James Wan looked at the notes for this movie, tossed them in the ocean, and made the most gloriously unhinged blockbuster of its year. Aquaman is a lava lamp of a film: octopus drummers, seahorse cavalry, Willem Dafoe explaining Atlantean…
Shazam! is Big with superpowers, and it knows it. A foster kid named Billy Batson gets chosen by an ancient wizard and can turn into a grown man in a cape by saying a magic word, and the film mines…
Justice League is a Frankenstein production: Zack Snyder left after a family tragedy, Joss Whedon took over, reshot a huge chunk on a rushed schedule, and the studio demanded a two hour runtime. You can see the seams everywhere. Henry…
For a stretch in the middle, Wonder Woman is the best film DC produced in its entire connected universe era. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine carry a charming stranger abroad story to the front lines of World War I, the…
The story behind this movie is better known than its plot: Warner Bros panicked after Batman v Superman got shredded, hired a trailer company to recut a finished film, and shipped whatever survived. You can feel the scissors in every…
The movie that broke the fanbase in half. Batman v Superman wants to be a meditation on power, fear, and godhood, and about half of it is genuinely fascinating: Ben Affleck’s older, crueler Batman is one of the best screen…