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To really enjoy Batman Returns, you have to give yourself over to its triumphant silliness
Finally, Batman got to be the real star of a Batman movie
It’s oddly thrilling to see a big-budget superhero movie that’s so clearly a single person’s vision
It is a bad movie, to be sure, but its awfulness is kind of fascinating
Marvel dominated the box office, but it was The Snyder Cut we all talked about
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There’s this thing I’ve been doing. I’m not proud of it. It’s embarrassing. But I do it every time I get bored or…
The first time we see Wakanda in a Marvel movie—the physical location, not a blip on a map or a word spoken in…
There’s a moment in 2017’s Wonder Woman that’s so inspiring, and so largely unprecedented, that it literally brought…
In the opening moments of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds turns directly to the camera and asks a rhetorical question:…
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Scott Pilgrim is not a superhero. He is not a hero. He is only barely a functional human being. He is a dipshit. So…
In a lot of ways, Watchmen, the comic series that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons started publishing in 1986, is a story…
Midway through Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie The Dark Knight, the Joker gets himself arrested so that he can then…
Here’s a fun mental exercise: Describe Venom to a child. I’ve tried it. It’s ridiculous.