A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2021.
Jon Watts closes out his trilogy by tearing a hole in the multiverse and letting twenty years of Spider-Man through it. It runs on nostalgia, and it knows it, but Holland's Peter earns the weight by the end. 8.5/10.
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Adam McKay aims a star-loaded satire at a planet that will not listen, and lands more of its punches than the reviews suggest. Broad, angry, very funny in places, and a touch too pleased with itself. 7.5/10.
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Denis Villeneuve takes on the novel that was supposed to be unfilmable and films half of it without blinking. Vast, patient and overwhelming, it is the best big-screen science fiction in years. 9.5/10.
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Ridley Scott tells one fourteenth-century crime three times over, and lets the truth settle in the gap between the versions. Grim, exact, and far better than its box office. 8/10.
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Daniel Craig signs off after fifteen years with the longest, saddest and most committed Bond of his run. It overreaches and it lingers, and it earns the goodbye anyway. 8/10.
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A true Cold War story told the old-fashioned way, carried by a Benedict Cumberbatch performance that gives up far more than the usual spy film asks. Conventional in shape, quietly devastating by the end. 8/10.
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A background character in an online shooter wakes up to the fact that he is software, and the film built around him is funnier and warmer than it has any right to be. 8/10.
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James Gunn takes the franchise nobody trusted, points it at a war film, and turns in the most enjoyable thing DC has put on screen in years. Gory, funny, and built around a team you actually mind losing. 8/10.
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Chris Pratt is drafted into a war three decades from now against an enemy that eats armies whole. The premise is sharper than the script, but the spectacle and the creatures earn their keep. 7.5/10.
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The team behind John Wick hand Bob Odenkirk a body count and a bus full of thugs, and he runs with it. Lean, brutal and very funny, it is the most fun ninety minutes the genre has produced in a while. 8/10.
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