Tag Archives: Marvel

‘Eternals’ vibrant plot full of big ideas held down by MCU-enforced technical weaknesses

Posted on November 13, 2021 by reelentropy

4/10 Eternals has long been built up as a shift in direction for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and boy, is it ever. There’s a new production mentality, a new story mentality, new story directions and relaxed series rules. It’s more … Continue reading →

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Crouching Marvel, hidden action

Posted on September 10, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has a lot of good components, but they never really come together, and the put-together product is instead so forgettable you can sometimes forget you’re in the process of watching it. … Continue reading →

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Stop what you’re doing and go see ‘Snake Eyes’

Posted on August 12, 2021 by reelentropy

9/10 Snake Eyes is the movie people like to pretend MCU movies still are. An underground street fighter known only as Snake Eyes (Henry Golding) drifts from job to job down the West Coast looking for the man who killed … Continue reading →

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The MCU you loved has been gone for a while now

Posted on July 22, 2021 by reelentropy

6/10 It’s finally here! After almost 20 years of development, 11 years of the character existing in the background, seven years of that with an infamously mangled backstory, and more than a year of pandemic-related delay, Black Widow finally has … Continue reading →

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is deranged and obscene

Posted on December 27, 2020 by reelentropy

3/10 Wonder Woman 1984 is not a film, it is a composite abomination in the spirit of Victor Frankenstein’s blueprints, a shambling patchwork horror of not just its surface-level influences, but the insane business practices and technological shortcuts that brought … Continue reading →

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