The Movies

It's the impossible dream. Big budget. Joss Whedon. Iron Man. Hulk. Thor. Cap. Black Widow. Hawkeye. Nick Fury. IN THE SAME MOVIE.

An incredibly ambitious movie, the Russo brothers balance a multitude of characters and plots to complete an intricate anti-hero's journey.

The ULTIMATE Crossover Film!

The Once and Future King lets love rule.

One of the most resonant and engaging romance stories that I've ever seen.

Well written, well crafted, it exceeds the first in many ways, with great character exploration and fantastic action.

Not a single scene or line is wasted in this tour de force - that is an Avengers movie in disguise.

Terrific adaption of Gloeckner's edgy and farcical coming-of-age graphic novels.

This film does a great job of tying up multiple timelines and stories, while paying homage to one of the greatest X-men stories of all time.

This classic is what BATMAN ('89) should've been, and had no clue how to do. Thanks, Chris!

This film actually improves on the excellent first with its ambition, complexity, and surprises.

Captain your own destiny.

Best comic book costume onscreen since Superman. Entertaining, captures the character perfectly, the passion shows in the production.

Another fine adaption of one of Posy Simmonds' brilliant graphic novels.

The only real Tarzan movie ever made, staying remarkably true to the first books.

The only reason this fine film doesn't get a 10 is because I think they're just warming up...

The superior sequel. Del Toro is on fire from PAN'S LABYRINTH all the way.

A serious art film from a serious art form.

Plug In, Tune Up, ROCK OUT! Puts the art in party.

To this day, I can't picture anyone else as Superman. They made me believe a man can fly.

Lovingly crafted, the director makes a wonderful period piece, bringing her rich history to vibrant life.

Another rare case of the sequel being better than the first film, Singer executes almost flawlessly, bringing to bear great storywriting and characterization of mutants in our world.

They achieved the impossible dream - bring a dearly loved character to the screen straight from Ditko's art with the right depth and perfect casting.

If you ever read a Judge Dredd comic, this movie is a must see. In some ways, it might be the truest adaptation of a hero to film ever.

The textbook case of the superior sequel; one villain, one strong story.

This movie exceeded my expectations - Joe makes the absolute right choices: making this a period piece, making skinny Steve Rogers believable and allowing great insight into what makes this hero. The last half of the movie suffers some timing issues but it's a great launchpad.

A fun rewrite of BATMAN BEGINS, turbo-ed by Downey's personality.

The best interpretation of Alan Moore's work onscreen.

An eye-opener, on every level.

This is the most inclusive and progressive version of the story.

Logan is a fantastic omega opus for the Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, with true heart in a masterfully shaped dystopia.

A compelling version of the indie fave.

The excellent sequel. Zod, Non, and Ursa.

Strong, and gets stronger to me with repeat viewings. Another 15 minutes wouldn't have hurt.

A satisfying follow up to the surprise hit Ant Man, they keep the flow going with familiar jokes, fun characters and solid action sequences.

The original Captain Marvel lights up the dark.

This movie excels despite it's rocky inception. Rudd is solid in the role and Michael Peña brings a great comedic presence - it surprises and delights.

A crescendo; overwhelms any plotholes with epic power and sheer intensity.

A fantastic follow up with an amazing cliff hanger ending.

A spot-on realization of Tardi's frowning hero and her surreal Victorian pulp adventures.

Zwigoff (CRUMB, GHOST WORLD) scores again with a fine take on Clowes' satirical thriller.

A smart, layered, compassionate film that improves on the source.

A great movie, and an amazing start to the Marvel empire. They took a solid C character and brought it to life with a beautiful visual style and some stellar fight choreography.

One of the most fantastic intros around, the movie is comedic, indie fun.

Visceral, bloody and ambitious in it's choreography, Oldboy is not to be messed with.

Brilliant and timeless satire that magnifies the sources into a cult classic for the ages.

While it doesn't hold up to repeat viewings, it's still the best film version of J. Jonah Jameson ever.

A good film of an exemplary graphic novel by Posy Simmonds.

Brings the impossible material to life and inspired a new generation to pick up the book.

The film gave Hugh Jackman a chance to endear the character to a whole new audience.

A great visualization to the printed work, Mignola's character is brought forth in a visceral, solid magnitude, with incredible set pieces and a defining performace by Perlman.

Like History of Violence, this comic was meant to be a film, Hanks breathes real life into the character.

Visually stunning, and comic accurate, it captures the sex and violence of Miller's work to the letter. Whether you would want to read the letter, kind of depends on your tolerance for it.

The movie suffers from not knowing whether to be animated or live action. A bold attempt to do something new.

A lot of things go well for the movie - War Machine, Black Widow intro, Mickey Rourke, great action sequences by Tartakovsky. Some of the drama seems a bit artificial and clunky at times, but is still an enjoyable watch.

An unexpectedly fine turn that, along with BLADE, launched the modern superhero film renaissance.

I had some pretty low expectations but was pleasantly surprised by the scope and scale of Aquaman, they aimed for epic and mostly got there.

The rare story lends itself better to film than it's comic book origins.

Solid, well executed Scifi fun, Will Smith brings it to life in a fun romp around NYC.

Definitely more Ultimate Spiderman than the first trilogy, the movie captures a lot of the spirit of the same series and carries through with a lot of serviceable action but is ultimately 'meh'

A much better follow up with a clear direction towards the cartoon universe.

I didn't expect to enjoy this, but it is a great exploration of the origins of the team and succeeds in providing a fantastic vehicle for Fassbender to shine as a focal point. Some of the other characters seem superfluous (white queen, Angel) but still well crafted.

The movie does an admirable job of capturing the spirit and suspense of Hellblazer's worlds and Reeves inhabits the role well, even if it's not quite the version we would have wanted (see the TV series for that version).

Entertaining and pretty faithful to the source.

The other best adaption of Alan Moore, though the book is infinitely deeper and better.

An admirable blending of comic book origins as well as the TV show.

One of the best adaptions one could hope for, on-target in every way.

Ambitious and sprawling in it's purview, this film suffers from too many elements all vying for a connection while missing the most critical one.

A science fiction classic, psychedelic and hyper sexual.

The best, truest Batman film of the 1960s.

Brutal, foul-mouthed and comical, this movie honors the work it came from: brutal, foul-mouthed and comical.

Solid performances from a great cast, Red details some great character interaction coupled with a fun plotline, mingled well with some well choreographed fight sequences.

Same deal as the first movie. I'd see Red 3 under this formula.

Some fun action, character design but ultimately a bit of a mess, that suffers from too much studio intervention.

Milius delivers a complete vision for the character and Arnie does deliver in a role meant for him. The film is lifted by a great performance by James Earl Jones and well-realized art direction.

A pleasant surprise of a movie I expected to suck.

This movie actually gets funnier to me over multiple watchings, it has some great moments and great characters, if a little flat in it's writing on occassion.

Singer is very reverential to Donner's vision, serving up a modern sequel to Superman 1 and 2. It suffers for the very same reason and lacks enough conflict or emotion to make it truly meaningful, as much as we would like it to.

A patchwork medley that’s still pretty catchy.

Underrated. I admire its surrealistic craft and odd risks.

A fun movie for RDJ to play in, while it was refreshing to see him fight without the suit, it is relatively empty in it's emotional weight.

Seeing Tex Avery come to life in CG was fun.

A shame Billy Zane didn't get a better recognized character to get behind, with all due respect to Lee Falk.

A good extension of the first movie, deepening the history of Pete's father and some great visual moments with introduction to the Sinister Six, but the Electro story is a tad embarrassing and shoddily written.

Del Toro brings a nightmare creature to life - a monster that eats monsters - in a fun piece that enhances the Blade mythos, and brings more of what was built in Blade 1 to fruition.

Beautiful to look at but hated the Penguin and it was a waste of Christopher Walken.

Schumacher made the films kinetic and vibrant; many strengths despite some camp creeping in.

Taking away the Vietnam story hobbles the intent and spirit of the character.

Alive with punk energy and humor, this is a good film that deserves far better appreciation.

A product of it's times, it succeed on entertaining young children of the 80s but not much more.

The movie does the book justice. An underrated adaptation.

Snyder captures the material directly, bringing together frame for frame a film version of the graphic novel, a classic Grecian tale brought to brutal, bloody life. That being said, not much new is brought to this.

Surprising faithful translation of Crepax's erotic adventure hero, Valentina, even duping his famed panel montages.

The extended cut was a pretty engaging little film. A film may not be Greatness, but good is okay, too.

A pretty faithful and entertaining frolic.

A decent take on the character for basic fun.

I actually enjoy all the GL Core/ space stuff; it's the Earth couple that hobbles it.

An interesting and rare experience of the creator translating their own graphix to the screen.

This movie lacks the central heart of the first film, driving to an obvious conclusion, in a brutal mess.

A fun, stylized spy movie in Vaughn's style, but ultimately somewhat forgettable.

An entertaining, if somewhat predictable film with some great fight sequences and all star cast.

Somewhat forgettable, and expected.

It's a shambling mess, not Altman at his height, but surprisingly faithful and devious underneath.

Too many cooks, no recipe. Mythos winks are nice, but strong plots are better.

I still sing tomorrow, today.

Held together by solid re-imagining and solid acting. Engaging.

One of the best most accurate adaptations of the source material.

Everything right and wrong about Frank Miller, unadulterated.

Way better than I feared, thank god they weren't aliens.

What I loved in it was a 9, what I hated was a 1.

I consider Judge Dredd the cancer of comics (the killbot), so this contrarily light SF romp worked for me.

An admirable job in attempting to capture the essence of the character, but the movie is overblown and obvious.

How did adding the Night Stalkers make this franchise worse?

A neglected star that can't find a stage.

Nothing says 80s like Erin Grey in a satin pantsuit!

An impossible movie to follow up on, even thought the mythos allows for it.

This movie is Phantom Menace bad. Wildly disappointing. Daredevil is a champion of the true comic fan and this movie is an injustice.

Corny and forced, the movie is fun at times but is over-ridden by some bad writing and a clunky construction.

The main action is average, but the funky frills along the way make it fun.

A decent antic that works well for young folks.

They spent a lot of money on effects, and Jeff Bridges is fun to watch, but Reynolds is the same character again, and the movie is ultimately forgettable.

Van Damme is Van Damme in this scifi movie of the week

A pretty good graphic novel turned into an okay film.

Cartoony and forgettable

This is considered by many to be a giant step in the evolution of a new, more serious Batman. In direct opposition of the '66 spoofy Batman, Burton sought to create an art deco city that housed a much more intense Batman than we've seen up to this point. The building blocks are there for Nolan to complete the transition to his masterwork. Nicholson owns the role, if campy and Keaton embraces the role, if a little silly at times.

A monumental disappointing follow up - and yet has the best classic villain in the form of Sandman.

Wasted opportunities, characters and deaths without meaning.

I love Jennifer Garner, and the character, but this movie strays far from the source material to deliver an uninspired, bland romp.

A camp crime that still makes me cringe.

A substantial step up from the last film but the damage had already been done.

Points for taking a ridiculous story and trying to give a new life in the form of a bombastic Hollywood Gun-Fu movie.

The same problems as the first, but with a decent take on the Surfer.

Too ad-hoc, unfocused, cliched. Another C-Movie with an A-budget.

Visually interesting and Eva Green gives a great performance, but the overall structure of the movie isn't compelling. It pales in comparison to the first.

Chow Yun Fat is awesome. Unfortunately, this movie is about as serious as the title.

The happy ghost gets a haunted take.

A pale imitation to the first film, relying on an expansion with new characters that add very little.

Some good Mod craft amid random chaos.

Well designed, but a predictable, ridiculous mess.

Formulaic, amiable fluff.

About as good as the source material but did not do the material justice.

High marks for craft, but the film plays like an also-ran of 'Princess Bride', with an overly-camp DeNiro.

The idea is better than the execution, which is oddly mediocre.

Saw it for free and worth the price I paid.

As disappointing as it was, it's still a Ghost Rider movie.

For a film that started with such a promise, they completely missed on the integrity of the characters.

A valiant attempt at trying to bring the piece to life, it fails on quite a few fronts, including the idiotic need to bring in an American character - tom sawyer - as an insult to American viewing audiences. It does capture Nemo, Jekyll and other in a good depiction but ultimately feels forced.

It looks like Bradstreet Punisher but I didn't make it through the whole thing.

A failed opportunity cashing in on the first two Donner films and giving us a great female lead.

Predictable fare, somewhat entertaining, Stallone is Stallone.

Apostasy. Some strong craft, undone by a climax so heinous it is unforgivable. Forever.

Too bad this film stops us from getting Arnold as Conan one more time.

I appreciate the fact they tried to bring the characters to life, with some huge prosthetics and makeup but it felt flat and unexciting.

The inferior sequel, from which superhero films didn't recover for 15 years.

Aside from good period detail, the film is a camp disaster that insults the original superhero.

Couldn't finish it, too difficult to buy Seth as Britt Reid.

I'd give this movie a 6 or 7 based on the fact I got a ton of Swamp Thing toys as a result.

It suffers from shoe horning too much marketing into the character's success.

Brolin is enjoyable to watch and on point, even if the rest of the movie is not.

How to reduce Wein & Wrightson to formula junk.

A crime against humanity. Even faded memories are painful.

The height of bad ideas - pro-ball player in a ridiculous silly mess.

Catwoman, female leads, and Halle Berry are all great essentials. But this film demeans all three.

Yikes.

Run away or get burned.

I'm not even sure how this got made, given the abject failure of Superman III. Terrible writing, Reeve is wasted again in the sad final outing for the franchise.

Impossible to comprehend how Frank Miller could get Eisner so wrong. It's like the most respected musician in the world recording lost Beatles songs and making them unlistenable.