Tinged in goth and grunge, Matt Reeves’ The Batman broods new life into DC’s cornerstone franchise, and Robert Pattinson claims his place, deservedly, next to Bale and Keaton on the Rushmore of Dark Knights.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
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“The Suicide Squad”: One-Sentence Review
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
“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
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