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
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“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
