The film exists largely to be replaced by the next shiny thing in the MCU conveyor belt.
For all the thrills provided by its pioneering pageantry, the film leaves you with a soul-nagging query: What price entertainment?
What lingers most readily from Amsterdam are the little privileged moments.
Shawn Levy’s sci-fi flick is as crowded with incident as it is with saccharine family drama.
The humor in the film is more wry than gut-busting, but Chris Butler has developed some truly inventive comic characters.
It suggests four episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic smushed together with a Sia music video tacked on at the end.
We finally have our answer to a not-so-eternal question: What would a PSA by Sia, née Sia Kate Isobelle Furler, would look like.
The film at one point offers the finest sustained act of emotional storytelling to grace a Marvel production.
Live by Night adds a new wrinkle to the well-traveled terrain of the mafia film: the woke gangster.
The film emphasizes its heroes’ inter-personal dynamics, and functions best as an extended team-building exercise.
The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist’s life to a spectacle of self-pity.
Maya Forbes reveals herself as a sunny optimist, remembering the ecstatic highs and never dwelling on the despairing lows.
Jorge R. Gutierrez subsumes the film’s darker themes in a relentlessly busy farrago of predictable kids’-movie tropes and annoying attempts at hipness.
At its best, it forgets to be a Marvel movie, casting off corporate shackles to let its freak flag fly.
The sole redeeming quality may be the subconscious running commentary it offers about its own pointlessness.
Even a brief summary of the 1974-set film’s plot reveals a near-comical laundry list of recycled plot elements.
What this movie finally boils down to is a deceptively simple tale of two brothers, and of being one’s brother’s keeper, and of seeking justice on the crudest of fronts.
the black void of death is the darkness du jour in Abrams’s bracingly revisionist melodramedy.
The clarity and inventiveness of J.J. Abrams’s direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating.
Beautiful Creatures got us thinking about beautiful creatures of movies past—characters not quite human, but quite easy on the eyes.