The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play. Tonally, it starts with an ending and keeps on ending for the next two hours and 49 minutes.
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The prickly comedy “Magic Farm” is a trip to rural Argentina that feels like flipping through a carousel of ironic souvenir postcards. The latest bit of mischief by filmmaker Amalia Ulman (“El Planeta”), it’s about how making the world smaller hasn’t widened our curiosity as much as shrunk it into snarky bites — in short, it’s about going everywhere and seeing nothing.
Marvel is sorry. Sorry about those confusing multiverse movies, sorry about the characters it’s hyped and abandoned, sorry that its parent company, Disney, gobbled up Twentieth Century Fox and the rights to the X-Men and, above all, sorry that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s centerpiece, the self-serious Avengers franchise, suddenly seems as stale as your uncle’s sweat socks.
So here comes Shawn Levy’s hilarious “Deadpool & Wolverine,” an apology candygram delivered by the two most mouth-puckeringly sour superheroes Marvel now owns. As…
What a blood rush to exit Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” aware that you’ve seen not merely a great movie but an eternal movie, one that will transcend today’s box office and tomorrow’s awards to live on as a forever favorite.
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