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Chris Evans
The Perfect Score (2004)
Cellular (2004)
We here at New Line Cellular...have the plan for you!...92 inflexible real-time minutes that are sure to pump up your fast-paced, action-packed lifestyle.
Fantastic Four (2005)
So much...is bungled with inept storytelling and watered-down dialogue, and Story is so powerless to right the course, that
Fantastic Four
winds up more dopey than fun.
TMNT (2007)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
A reading from the Books of Marvel...And the Surfer passed through buildings and buses with a squish...And Twentieth Century Fox said that it was good.
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Street Kings (2008)
Competent but fatally lacking in the element of surprise.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition (2009)
What can I say about
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
that the title doesn't economically express?
Tennessee Williams' The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2010)
The Losers (2010)
This comic-book knockoff of
The A-Team...
is a lot easier to enjoy than Fox's sanctioned remake of
The A-Team
. Perhaps that's because Sylvain White's
The Losers
is self-aware of its schlock value...
Captain America (2011)
The most noticeable motif Johnston plays with is the use of a garbage-can lid as a shield: more important than $140 million dollars worth of toys is Johnston’s childlike sense of play.
What's Your Number? (2011)
[Faris] and Evans deserve better than a string of rom-com clichés, including the surprise date in a closed sports arena. Unless you’re Justin Beiber and Selena Gomez, it couldn’t happen to you.
Puncture (2012)
The Avengers (2012)
It's quite possible that
The Avengers
has more action than any movie ever made...[but] for all its thrill-ride clutter,
The Avengers
is just about as simplistic as them fightin'-robot pictures...
The Iceman (2013)
The main selling point here—and it's a considerable one—is Shannon, who shows new shadings in the role of Kuklinski...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Though
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
never strays far from preposterousness, the picture's real-world implications give its high-flying action at least a tug of gravity.
Snowpiercer (2014)
A movie-movie, with edgy cred and a vivid dystopian vision that, while ostensibly futuristic, speaks harshly to the class divide already defining us.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Pure, uncut comic-book fantasy...Whedon tames the beast into something spectacularly epic, if a bit exhausting: bursting with destructive mayhem but grounded by interesting character beats, rife with dark implications but seasoned with good humor.
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
A direct sequel to
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
...a crazy-cool superhero team-up/smackdown movie to make
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
look like a tea party, and a franchise-launching introduction to the new Spider-Man...
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
[Spoiler-free review:] Marvel’s superhero movies may not run the risk of being called 'elegant,' but they’re sure as hell sturdy, well-built popcorn flicks that send audiences out unequivocally satisfied.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Marvel tourists may surprise themselves how much they care...while fanatics will have a geekgasm of heretofore undiscovered proportions at what amounts to the biggest series finale ever. To put it more politely, they’ll love it “times 3000.&rd
Knives Out (2019)
Knives Out
cannot help but be fanciful fun, particularly for murder-mystery fans...Johnson adds ballast to what would otherwise be a lightweight tale by suggesting sociopolitical allegory.
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