The relative grace of the action direction only underscores how disjointed the rest of the film is.
On the occasion of the release of Black Adam we ranked every DCEU movie from worst to best.
The film’s masterful prologue writes a check that the remainder of this very long, very indulgent film labors mightily to cash.
The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious.
When its tone slides firmly back into the murk, it’s hard not to see DC’s notion of heroism as borderline nihilistic.
The film is simultaneously exhilarating, gorgeous, and tedious, operating as a weird fusion of auteur project and craven franchise start-up.
An origin story, apologia, and harbinger of a second expanded universe of overpopulated action bonanzas.
The film leaves no doubt of the original’s influence, but to watch it is to sit dumbstruck at the cynicism of Hollywood bean counting.
Like a Brazilian wax for the brain, Zack Snyder’s divisive reboot of the Superman franchise will continue to obliterate your senses in this impressive combo package.
These days, the X-Men saga seems like an interweaving, incestuous franchise bent on its own redemption.
All its faux-patriotism isn’t played for satire, but instead utilized to align the film with an idyllic, unquestioned vision of goodness.
The new poster for Man of Steel is an exercise in tedium.
The primary tactic in Snyder’s repertoire is decontextualization.
So try this scenario on for size: You’re just a regular guy who likes to look at porn on the Internet.
Zack Snyder offers a peek inside his head, which turns out to be a vomatorium of pop culture’s every geeky element.
If 300 was an abomination of history, Zach Synder’s latest is an abomination of the power of fairy tales.
So much of the criticism and praise of Watchmen centers on the dilemma of adapting the acclaimed source material.
There’s a reason they call it adaptation.
In terms of fidelity, Watchmen is frequently flawless.
Edge enhancement visibly hugs objects and actors from time to time, but color saturation is gorgeous and the sometimes gloppy blacks, given the film’s origin as a comic book, always make sense.