Director and writer James Gunn’s soft reboot of 2016’s Suicide Squad shoots from the hip—with a bazooka— as it avoids its predecessor’s pitfalls and amps up what worked to eleven.
10 out of 12 Tamales
Tag: DC Comics
“Wonder Woman 1984”: One-Sentence Review
Overstuffed, overlong, overhyped, overblown— over it—WW84 is unfortunately another notch on 2020’s ruinous belt.
4.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Birds of Prey”: One-Sentence Review
A bad music video within a bad dream inadequately describes the train wreck which is Birds of Prey, a villains-turn-heroes pic that takes one part Suicide Squad, two parts terrible, blends them haphazardly and pours contents into theaters nationwide.
2.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Shazam”: One-Sentence Review
Landing a majority of its superhero-sized comedic punchlines, Shazam, an apt conjunction of Big and Superman, is DC’s best entry since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Aquaman”: One-Sentence Review
Aquaman, DC’s latest superhero movie, doesn’t break new ground—or water—but it certainly entertains, delivering some gnarly, underwater worldbuilding along with a tsunami of cheesiness.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Lego Batman”: One-Sentence Review
Lego Batman might be keen at nodding and winking at Batman’s prolific movie canon; however, its joke-a-minute formula has more misses than hits.
5 out 12 Tamales
“Suicide Squad”: One-Sentence Review
The pop art one sheets and the perfectly edited movie trailers, with their catchy, feel-good music, promised us the next great superhero (read antihero) movie; instead, what we got in Suicide Squad is a sophomoric, choppily edited disappointment, with its only redeeming quality being an outstanding performance from Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Will Smith’s Deadshot.
6 out of 12 Tamales
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