Hard to recommend but for the visual spectacle, Athena features excellent craft in service of a confounding story that betrays itself.
Category: Action
Carter (2022) – Movie Review
An exhausting, migraine-inducing barrage of solid action barely threaded together by a dumb plot.
Prey (2022) – Movie Review
A thoroughly fun action movie with a compelling action heroine.
Bullet Train (2022) – Movie Review
While uneven, Bullet Train was a fun enough experience for me, with compelling action making up for some pacing and tone issues.
The Gray Man (2022) – Movie Review
Why Netflix thinks this forgettable nothing of a movie could build an entire franchise is unknowable to me.
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) – Movie Review
Thor: Love and Thunder is further proof that the MCU is in a Things Just Happening phase.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) – Movie Review
If you’re open to Everything Everywhere All at Once, to its embrace of optimism, you’re in for universes of enjoyment.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Movie Review
I would say that big action blockbusters do not get better than this, except that’s exactly what these people are pushing themselves to do. You owe it to yourself to see this spectacle.
RRR (2022) – Movie Review
A maximalist period epic full of spectacular action and drama.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) – Movie Review
Directing Disney’s content machinery towards horror-flavored excess, Sam Raimi proves that Marvel is willing to hand over its creative reins only so far.
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