Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…