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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
It felt less like a movie than death by a thousand studio notes.
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The Prestige 2006
Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, except the rabbit’s a little grumpy and the hat’s rigged with Victorian-era Tesla coils. The film kicks off with that delicious tingle of expecting a trick—will it dazzle us, will we buy the illusion?—and we’re all suckers, hoping for a sprinkle of magic to whisk us away from our boring, logical lives. But Nolan, the sly dog, flips the script: our innocent craving for wonder…
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The Batman 2022
As far as Nolan rip-offs go, this is a good one. It wants desperately to not be Nolan but it's Nolan. When you try to make a serious Batman movie, your Nolan love cannot be hidden. Also the city looks like Batman Begins.
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