Raw, powerful, emotional, dark, mature, noir love-letter to Golden-Age Hollywood & Se7en/Arrow/TAS/Daredevil/Nirvana-themed nihilistic detective origin story of gloom, chiaroscuro, tragedy, malfeasance, rage w. Best CC Performance: R.P. 8.7/10.
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Category: Action/Adventure
Doctor Strange: Multiverse Of Madness (2022)
Raimi makes a prodigal return to CBM’s & early career horror roots 10+ years later w. a multiversal haunted house on epic VFX scale, subsidized by Scarlet Witch & fandom cameos.. though character-flaws, tone chops dilute prestidigitation. 7.8/10.
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
A Clinic On How To Do A Legacy Sequel & Purest One Since Blade Runner 2049; a high-octane ailerion roll of stunt/cinematographical witchcraft – balancing outré 4DX-worthy aeronautical fuel-adrenaline w. sharp dialogue, emotion, A+ TC. 9.6/10.
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Morbius (2022)
The Forever-Delayed CBM & Leto ‘Revenge Tour’ from his [self-onus/solestical] exile by DC post-2016 Joker-Squad is 10x worse: lazy, soulless, cynical, tone-deaf, ugly, ~casuistic, über-clichéd gothic anemicism where only dead is script. 2.5/10.
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The Adam Project (2022)
Beautifully-locationed in VC wilderness with solid FX & action scenes, but a bland, schmaltzy, forgettable, tired screwball Netflix-signature rehash of ~every ’80’s sci-fi film of public conscience w. a woefully-miscast ensemble led by genre-ill R.R. 4/10.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore (2022)
Though its ad-lib rewrite to make Dumbledore canonically LGBTQ+ is celebratory & a surprise given the context of J.K. Rowling, it’s counterbalanced by a toxic WB’s fire of domestic abuse *victim* Depp & not his abuser.. in otherwise drab flm. 3/10.
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Moon Knight (2022)
Though M.K. heavily copyright-infringes as a Batman-clone by comics design, pago ouroboric TV reincarnation: pharaoh chef d’oeuvre of pyramid scale 10x amplifying Egyptian lore w. kaiju, dissociative identity, & acting showcase from O. Isaac. 8.5/10.
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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Though it succumbs to ~every blockbuster sequel cliché, overkidifies, & Schwartz’ manicism vexes/immiscibles w. JCEM, a major +1 made for the fandom who fought for cinexistence: deep VG lore, wide GH cameos, wacky retroarcade charm. 7.1/10.
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Uncharted (2022)
One of the greatest video games of all-time gets a mixed big-screen adaptation in a double-checkmate of perpetuation between two genii of media experience: clichéd, exec Raiders Of The Lost National Treasure In 007/MI/Bourne RN Caribbean. 4/10.
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Beast (2022)
In A Crisis Era Of Poaching & Man-Catalyzed Eco/Climate Destruction Killing The Animal Kingdom 1,000x > Vice-Versa, why even make a film like this? Oh, and they’re [technically] trespassers in his territory/home, so.. Shame, Idris Elba. 2.7/10.
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