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A movie about rewriting timelines that was itself rewritten a hundred ways behind the scenes, and every rewrite shows on screen. Ezra Miller plays two versions of Barry Allen, and whatever you make of the actor’s well documented legal troubles,…
The sequel nobody was demanding arrived four years after the original, into a universe its own studio had already announced was dead, and it plays like a cast reunion for a show that got cancelled. Zachary Levi is back grinning…
Dwayne Johnson spent roughly a decade promising that the hierarchy of power in the DC universe would change, then delivered a movie where nothing changes at all. Black Adam is a museum of Johnson brand management: he floats, he glowers,…
Three hours of noir rain, and it earns most of them. Matt Reeves treats Batman as a detective story first, and Robert Pattinson plays Bruce Wayne as a recluse two years into a nightly vengeance habit, eyeliner and all, narrating…
James Gunn got handed the keys and made exactly the movie only he could make: a hard R bloodbath that is somehow also the most emotionally generous film in the whole DC line. The Suicide Squad soft reboots the 2016…
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…