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Whiplash 2014
Cinematic history has known many famous duos, and Miles Teller versus J.K. Simmons deserves to be considered among the best. Whiplash is not necessarily for musicians (every drummer friend of mine HATES this movie), nor is it just for fans of pyschothrillers. It's a universal movie. The idea of striving not just for greatness, but immortality, and the surrounding philosophies of how to reach such heights, or whether a life is worthwhile otherwise is terrifyingly captivating. Some might sum the…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023
Every time Marvel releases a string of mediocrities since Endgame, they manage to come up with a movie so good that I nearly forgive the rest, and remember why I'm an MCU junkie. I was very worried that the post-Endgame malaise would cripple Guardians 3, but this movie hit hard. By centering the movie on Rocket, one of my favorite characters in the entire MCU and for sure through the Guardians series, we were offered a darker but consequentially more…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023
Having thoroughly enjoyed the first two Ant-Men, I had high hopes for Quantumania. What a colossal disappointment. Ant-Man's success had previously relied on clever staging, a compelling balance of superpowered and normal people, and excellent writing. Quantumania failed on all three counts. The setting of the quantum realm meant that the whole point of Ant-Man was rendered pretty much irrelevant. Any hero could have been there, the sizing and physics made no impact. We received no equivalent of the train…
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Captain Marvel 2019
Captain Marvel should have been so much better. Look, no matter what, an army of angry men would have hated on the movie just because of its natural position as a feminist statement. But it didn't have to be so boring! Brie Larson just couldn't really capture any hearts as Carol Danvers, and being indescribably powerful and unstoppable seemingly without limitation didn't make for a compelling hero. Every good character has weaknesses, and Captain Marvel being the strongest being in…
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