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  • Boogie Nights
  • All That Jazz
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  • A Brighter Summer Day

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  • The Lighthouse

    ★★★★½

  • Showing Up

    ★★★

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★½

  • Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

    ★½

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    I wholeheartedly reject the notion that this is half a movie. I admittedly am a sucker for a well-executed, properly built-up cliffhanger and the one here is an absolute knockout, but regardless this movie tells a complete, moving story about the monomythic nature of comic-book storytelling and the structures it forces upon its characters, and it gives both Miles and Gwen complete arcs allowing them to break free of those shackles. I wasn't expecting to love this movie given that…

  • Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

    ★½

    Truly just can't imagine how anyone could muster even an inkling of excitement for this. The worst of the Bay movies at least had personality, this is two hours of nothing. A feature length contractual obligation, white noise masquerading as film. Ramos and Fishback are both very charming and deserve far better.

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  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    ½

    The worst film I've seen this year, and a genuine insult to Freddie Mercury's legacy. It's The Greatest Showman of 2018 in that it's a piece of glossy, overproduced, revisionist garbage that's totally dishonest in the portrayal of its subject. At least in this one the songs are good.

    You'll notice in the opening credits that Brian May and Roger Taylor are credited as producers, and their influence is obvious. They're portrayed as the glue of responsibility that holds the…

  • WandaVision

    WandaVision

    ★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    ROAD BEYOND ENDGAME: Part 24

    The announcement of Wandavision as the MCU's first official TV show was an interesting prospect for multiple reasons, first and foremost being that TV would presumably allow Marvel to finally branch out and try something different, removed from the pressures having to produce a four-quadrant theatrical blockbuster. Though their placement within the MCU is now shaky at best, the Netflix Marvel shows at least achieved this; they may have been riddled with bloat but they…