In a post-Endgame era where the movies have diminished in quality with the storytelling, and resort to CGI explosion fests in the third act, Thunderbolts dares to be different and subverts expectations by flipping the script. It puts real effort into its characters and tackles the conflict in the third act from a psychological angle instead of CGI action sequences. It feels like a two-hour therapy session on loneliness, depression, and existential nihilism, in a good way. It’s not your…

There was so much hyperbolic praise around Ne Zha 2 that I figured there was no way it could live up to the hype. But imagine my face, jaw wide open, when it actually did. A completely mysterious animated production from China I had never even heard of suddenly became impossible to ignore due to the word-of-mouth, the box office records, the sheer phenomenon of it all. And now I can confidently say I haven’t seen an animated film this…

Is this a return to form for Wes Anderson? Sort of, but your mileage may vary. It depends on if you like the charming, heartfelt, whimsical Wes Anderson, or the... "Asteroid City" Wes Anderson, which bordered on self-parody and which I found so artsy, pretentious and incomprehensible. The Phoenician Scheme is a lot more straightforward and approachable with its plot. Which is to say, I had a blast and it comes as close as it could to recapturing Anderson' glory…

How does a spin-off film in the John Wick universe fare in of the action? The action's fantastic! *pretends to be shocked
However, the script doesn't hold a candle to any of the mainline John Wick films, not that the John Wick movies have ever had deep plots or character. But Ballerina is absurdly shallow and generic with its script and how it handles its already existing characters that we know from the previous films. It definitely feels like…