Category: Reviews
REVIEW: The Flash (2023)
I’m not sure I’d call The Flash a mixed bag; that implies a fairly equal good-to-bad ratio, and The Flash is more bad than good by a wide margin. And what’s bad is abysmal, not only embracing many of the grating modern superhero movie tropes but hooking them up to rockets and shooting them int...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 3, Episode 11, “Complications”
“Complications” is one of those episodes that feels like it should be the season finale but comes a couple of weeks early. There are still two more episodes left in season 3, but this would have made a satisfying endpoint. The main plotlines come to a head – one better than the other – and &...
Read MoreREVIEW: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)
Matthew Carmosino | Jun 5, 2023 | 0
Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was the single-player experience Star Wars fans have been wanting for a decade, one that broke the dry run of Star Wars games under EA. Fast-forward to 2023, and the sequel launches with numerous bugs and optimization woes, prompting review-bombing and sour i...
Read MoreREVIEW: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Into the Spider-Verse was one of the biggest pleasant surprises of the past few years. I’ve liked some movies from Sony Pictures Animation, like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Lego Movie. But Spider-Verse single-handedly initiated a paradigm shift in the landscape of American animation....
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 3, Episode 10, “Collision Course”
How they refrained from calling this episode “Cat’s in the Cradle” I’ll never know, but they resisted. “Collision Course” is another decent entry in the trying third season of Superman & Lois, with some good plotlines and payoffs for the cancer arc mixed with annoying or incomprehens...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Little Mermaid (2023)
When I heard that Disney was remaking The Little Mermaid, I felt a familiar mixture of dread and tepid hopefulness. The Little Mermaid isn’t my favorite Disney movie, but it’s an undisputed classic that saved the animation studio at a crucial juncture in its storied history. And I do ...
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