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Steel yourself for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
7/10 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is more intense than it is good. It’s very well made and there’s a lot of value that you wouldn’t be expecting as a natural extension of the series, but plenty of people … Continue reading
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Tagged Chukwudi Iwuji, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, James Gunn
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Make a different movie.
Suicide Squad (Ayer, 2016) hit theaters after more than a year of fanfare, polarizing audiences who loved and hated it for a wide breadth of reasons. Five years later to the exact weekend, The Suicide Squad (Gunn, 2021), a remake/sequel/reboot … Continue reading
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Tagged David Ayer, Don't just scrape the mustard off, Guardians of the Galaxy, HBOmax, James Gunn, Kick-Ass, Make a different movie, Make a movie that doesn't suck, Suicide Squad, Suicide Squad (Ayer 2016), The Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad (Gunn 2021), Warner Bros.
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‘Brightburn’ soft on satire, complex take on family disfunction
6/10 Brightburn is a minimalist, almost frustratingly simple film. That’s what might be disappointing about it, and it’s also what might be great about it. In Brightburn County, Kansas, Tori and Kyle Breyer (Elizabeth Banks and David Denman) struggle to conceive a … Continue reading
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Tagged #elizabeth banks, #mcu, #suicide squad, Brightburn, David Denman, DCEU, Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn
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‘Vol. 2’ not as good as first, but with new and different merits
7/10 In August 2014, the first Guardians of the Galaxy burst into theaters as a wildly different offering from the MCU. From the formula that was finally beginning to grow stale — and kept right on doing so with its next … Continue reading