In many ways, I’m the ideal viewer for X-Men: First Class.
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X-Men: First Class (2011)
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is demonstrably worse than Kingsman: The Secret Service, but there’s no single reason why.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
There are plenty of directors whose work grows in stature with each release.
Something that tends to get buried in the discussions I’ve heard around Gangs of London is that it’s a videogame adaptation.
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Under the Skin (2013)
I have some ambivalence towards Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer’s third film.
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Kick-Ass (2010)
Kick-Ass isn’t really one movie.
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American Fiction (2023)
American Fiction, the debut film by Cord Jefferson, fills in one of my favorite niches, one that could always use more films
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Stardust (2007)
Stardust is a rare breed: A standalone, high-budget, live-action fairytale unaffiliated with any franchise or extended universe.
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Layer Cake (2004)
Matthew Vaughn rode the post-Tarantino tsunami of indie crime cinema, and has leveraged it into a very industrious Hollywood career.
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The Harder They Fall (2021)
Perhaps what’s most surprising about The Harder They Fall is the fact that it is not subversive at all.