Rating 2 and 1/2 Stars — As the credits came to a close and Thor: Love and Thunder finished with a final post-credits scene, there was a perturbed atmosphere of indifference among my fellow movie-goers. The fourth installment of the Thor series wasn’t lacking in dazzling special effects or beautifully conceptualized environments. In other words, director…

Rating: 3 Stars — In my heavily biased opinion, the best scene of Top Gun Maverick is the opening scene. The beautiful riffs of Kenny Loggins’ biggest hit serenade a screen full of quick hard cuts where indistinguishable workers prepare fighter jets to sail into the sky off of an aircraft carrier. Tom Cruise…

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — There are three sides to every dispute: Two rivaling accounts and the truth. The Last Duel explores this notion that each person experiences a story through their own biased narrative, and it does so with careful nuance. …

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — Fresh off of watching Spider-Man: No Way Home, I popped in the disc for the middle film of the Marvel Spider-Man trilogy. There’s a mystique about Spider-Man: Homecoming that weighs on me while I’ve watched these two sequels. All the films have been inspired to a degree but there was…

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — Here we go, another blockbuster smash from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Scorcese doth protest. While I disagree with Scorcese’s interpretation of the definition of cinema, I do understand the value of his sentiment. Scorcese said it himself, this style of filmmaking and storytelling isn’t for him. Some people don’t like…

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — If Spectre was a Daniel Craig-led celebration of most things James Bond, No Time to Die is the drunk afterparty where the party guests overstay their welcome and knock over a few desks lamps. Bond films can track near the two-and-a-half-hour mark so No Time to Die isn’t significantly longer…