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Anthony Mackie stars as the titular Sam “Captain America” Wilson from “Captain America: Brave New World.” (Photo courtesy of IMDb)

The good, the bad and the politics of ‘Captain America: Brave New World’

By Michael McKee | Feb. 26

“Captain America: Brave New World” is a suitable action flick with good performances and effects, however it fails to live up to any high expectations. It's not a very biting political commentary, its twist is given away in the trailer, it does little to help the MCU’s struggling momentum and it's a pretty par for the course for a superhero movie. It almost feels like the first draft or the shadow of a much better movie which probably owes itself to the film's extensive reshoots. When push comes to shove, I'd recommend this movie for hardcore MCU fans, but for the average moviegoer I think it’s safe to ignore.

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The series follows three amateur sleuths, Charles, Mabel and Oliver, who solve murders that happen only in their Manhattan apartment (Photo Courtesy of IMDb).

‘Only Murders in the Building’ returns with a murder victim too close to home

By Chiara Piacentini | Sep. 6

The murder mystery drama has picked up where it left off in season four of “Only Murders in the Building.” Charles-Haden Savage and his partners in crime, Mabel Mora and Oliver Putnam, are pulled into the depths of another murder case. As their true crime podcast, “Only Murders in the Building,” is part of the show and has covered three seasons worth of murders, we can only expect an additional plot-twisting season will be added to the series. 

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The film’s controversial nature has muddied most of its reception (Photo courtesy of IMDb).

Romanticization and the need for a happy ending: ‘It Ends with Us’ review

By Lake DiStefano | Sep. 6

Despite all the controversy, at the center lies the film itself, which hasn’t received much attention in light of all the scandal surrounding its inception. It seems that, at least in terms of conversation around the film, most of the discussion is focused on typical celebrity drama, with most of social media debating which of the two leads is most wrong in the apparent feud.  

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Jake Gyllenhaal commits so much of his own power to the intricate fight choreography yet, in the end, is powerless to save this film’s indecisive tonal mixture (Photo courtesy of IMDb).

‘Road House’ is sleek yet tonally undecided

By Joshua Hudes | Apr. 10

Jake Gyllenhaal’s Dalton is the character to which a nebulous conflict of self-destruction, anxiety and focused determination belongs in this reinterpretation of the cult classic from 1989. Released almost exclusively on Prime Video on March 21, “Road House” was directed by Doug Liman and tells a similarly themed yet excessively self-conscious form of that narrative.

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Midsommar's movie poster (photo courtesy of IMDb).

Midsommar Director’s Cut: A disappointing dupe

By Maia Venuti | Nov. 10, 2023

A24 Production company re-released some of its most popular horror films in participating theaters throughout the month of October in the spirit of Halloween. The studio announced that “The Witch” (2015), “X” (2022) and “Under the Skin” (2013) would return to theaters, and the fourth and final film in this series would be the director’s cut of Ari Aster’s 2019 masterpiece, “Midsommar.”

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