Though efficiently directed, the film is too concerned with keeping its main character likeable.
Instead of a raucous celebration, The Flash feels like a muted parade of regrets.
It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
It’s impossible to take it seriously as anything other than an Abercrombie & Fitch ad posing as a political thriller.
By partially demonstrating what a fresher superhero movie might look like, it underlines its genre-defined limitations.
The film is fascinated and captivated by the kind of man who’d want to put on a bat costume and save people.
Michael Keaton’s powerful performance in John Lee Hancock’s The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story.
The film devotes too much time delivering information to establish a convincing visual foundation for its account.
First, praise be to the brave Oscar pundits who have Bradley Cooper in their crosshairs.
Adam West and Burt Ward are antipodal to every subsequent incarnation of Batman and Robin. The dynamic duo are blithe fuddy duddies turned billionaire scions in spandex.
The film's Hollywood skewering is constantly spoon-feed to us like strained bananas.
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s anti-critic harangue is petty coming from a writer-director whose spotty filmography has largely been met with critical praise.
Burton puts more of a premium on sound and image to suggest character depths than the more prosaic Christopher Nolan does.
Even when compared to other Ford Mustang commercials, the film isn’t particularly memorable for anything other than the startling incompetence and dull sheen of the end result.
The film is a deck-stacking simulation of a dialogue it isn’t even remotely interested in opening.
Even amid the troubling trend of remaking films that have barely collected a speck of dust, there are still movies that can surprise you.
This Blu-ray release offers yet another reason to revisit Tarantino’s masterpiece on unrequited love.
Tears tell no lies in the end: Toy Story 3 is sketchy, but it's also profoundly moving.
The Other Guys isn’t simply a straight Cop Out-style parody.
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