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.
[category:drama/action-adventure/comic-book-movies-tv/crime-films/film-noir,date:2022-03-01,rate:8.7,type:movies]
………
Category: Action/Adventure
Doctor Strange: Multiverse Of Madness (2022)
Raimi remixes CBM’s x horror origins 40+ years later: wild, hyperimaginative, avant garde multiversal haunted house on epic [drug/acid VFX] scale w. caviar Olsen SW, malevolence, adv. technique, yt america | deprsn allegory, MCU R-auteurism. 8/10.
[category:actionadventure/horror/comic-book-movies-tv,date:2022-05-17,rate:8.5,type:movies]
………
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.
………
Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022)
The Most Expensive Film *Ever* Made W. Budget Of ~1/2 A Billion, TWOW worthily aggrandizes its original’s comprehensively groundbreaking VFX/CGI, hypambition: VR 3D exp. witchcraft of indescribable magnitude; ode to infinitum of ciné. 8.8/10.
………
Black Adam (2022)
The World’s Biggest And Most Popular Man Of The Movies Bizzarely Feels ~Offcast For The Role Of A Legend Of Doom, A Bad WB Mgmt Grnlight Epic By A+ Theatrical JSA For Max Comic Book Nerdgasm, 10 VFX, Post-Credits, Future Possibility. 7.5/10.
Read more "Black Adam (2022)"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.
………
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.
………
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. 7.5/10.
………
House Of The Dragon (2022)
The Beginning Of House Targaryen & Fire-And-Blood Prequel To GOT And DOTD; Royal Homecoming for the George R.R. Martin-verse After S8 – one with nuanced tonal shifts, epic prod. value, fresh story/characterization,.. & more dragons. 8.7/10.
………
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.
………
