Likely to be ed as Coogler’s magnum opus. I would love to be wrong and have him top this down the line, but if this is as good as it gets, it’s pretty god damn good. It packs enough heat to melt genres, forming a new alloy that feeds all parts of your brain, top to bottom, but the soul of Sinners is about the transcendent power of art itself. Having that power can free you. It can also make…

The Final Reckoning delivers a pair of action set pieces that will yet again have you at the edge or your seat in excitement and disbelief, but even these extended sequences are a small fraction of the ballooning runtime that modern franchises seem to demand. It feels an ironic shame that this last Mission Impossible, which both in its fictional world and in the meta context of its own production has been a stalwart of resisting today’s algorithm-driven digital inauthenticities, makes…

More like Dead Retconning, am I right? Fortunately, the totally unnecessary history between the villain played by Esai Morales and Ethan Hunt is one of a
mere pair of sins committed by this sprawling, exciting penultimate entry. The other is the injustice done to the Ilsa Faust character, but hey when the Bene Gesserit come calling you just gotta answer! Otherwise, Dead Reckoning remains a great success in my book. Breezy pace, more color, a bit of fun in the…

Many thanks to my friend who got tickets to a free early screening!! 

If you are a Fast fan, you are in for a good time right here. After a couple movies of tonal confusion, we are back in a beautiful balance of ridiculous car action, humor, family, Coronas, espionage, family, and family!!

Does it make sense? Hell no. Is it good? Nah! But is it “good?” Yes. Yes it is. I stopped expecting these to make sense and be regular…

I think I’m going to need a repeat viewing to more coherently figure out how I feel about this, but so far:

- they made some really, really fun choices and for all the seriousness this movie has, it also contains some of the best humor of the MCU
- as a result of that combo, some of the tonal shifts are so jarring they risk ripping a hole in space
- a lot of (largely successful) work was done…