Baby Driver never for a minute romanticized the violence which drive its high-octane action sequences, not only removing the glamour from the car-crime genre, but soberingly showing the consequences of such a lawless lifestyle.
Trading the fully feminst Diana of the comics for a demi-divine intercesor was the right move for the movie adaptationof the character
Though the perfectly paced plot and sonorous score are lifted directly out of its animated antecedent, this live-action adaptation takes liberties with many of the finer details and achieves an even greater depth than its cartoon counterpart, improving upon perfection.
If all of Univarsal’s monster movies are up to the same caliber as Skull Island, they’ll rank right alongside Marvel as a cinematic universe whose every entry is a must-see.
Logan is not about him saving a child – it’s about Logan saving himself by opening his long-hardened heart to her, his emotional scars being the one wound his healing factor could never mend.
Lego Batman is less a puerile playtime with a mishmash of minifigs and more a sincere character study that seems to truly understand the core of Batman’s character
La La Land is a movie about movies, emulating the style of Golden Age films as an ars cinematica on the importance of films as an art form and imbuing in audiences the same passion for classic cinema as Chazelle himself.
