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The Dark Knight (2008)
Do I look like a guy with a plan? Comic book movies are all grow’d up and, boy, are they gloomy. Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to his brilliant goes beyond its predecessor and gives us a rich, m...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
What would you have me do? Hang half the people in England, or just imprison them? Some movies are made to entertain us, others to inform, titillate or provoke. This one seems to have been made expre...
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
You start down this path, where does it end? It was probably inevitable, but a faint hint of repetition has crept into the Jason Bourne franchise. This third movie feels and awful lot like the second...
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
It’s not a mistake. They don’t make mistakes. They don’t do random. Given his initials, it’s probably not a stretch to think that Robert Ludlum was inviting comparisons between hi...
Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
I was really hoping we could avoid this. 2007 appears to have been the year of thirds, meaning the third entry in some highly visible film franchises. We had a third Shrek movie, a third Jason Bourn...
Shrek the Third (2007)
You had me at “vermin-filled.” At least Disney has the sense to release its animated sequels direct to video, because no one wants to fork over ten bucks for one viewing of a craven attempt to ca...
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
I have no sympathy for any of you feculent maggots and no more patience to pretend otherwise. Before the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, the practice of shooting two sequels in quick succession h...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Oh fine! Let’s just haul out our swords and start banging away at each other! That will solve everything! In Hollywood, success comes with its own peculiar brand of curses, most notably the expecta...
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
I like the part where he knocks you on your ass. I’m not much of a comic book aficionado, so I’m not certain where the Fantastic Four fit in the pantheon-slash-food-chain of super heroes. I guess...
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
I know that tone. I’m just not used to hearing it from someone with . . . hair. It’s been a good couple of years for restarting movie franchises. 2005 gave us Batman Begins and 2006 begat Casino ...
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
You mean to tell me that I’m caught up in all this shit because some white cop threw some white asshole’s brother off a roof? It’s almost axiomatic that the third iteration of a movie franchise...
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Just once, I’d like a regular, normal Christmas. This follow-up to the 1988 genre-buster is one of those movies that does just about as much wrong as it can without completely sucking. It’s also ...
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Where do these guys come from? While I would never knowing recommend either of the two Joel Schumacher Batman movies to you, gentle readers, I think either of these two brain-dead cinematic exercises...
Harry Potter Lives Free at World’s End
What does a film critic, even an amateur one, do his day off? Go to the movies of course. In this case, I’ve taken two days off work for the forty-second anniversary of beginning my existence, and h...