Tag Archives: Chris Evans
THE AVENGERS (2012)
Movie Review
The Avengers is not a Citizen Kane for the capes-and-cowls crowd, nor does it try to be a superhero film for people who hate superheroes. What it tries to be instead—and pretty much succeeds in being—is the film for which people who love superheroes have been waiting all their lives. Continue reading
Filed under 2012 Films, Current Releases, MOVIE REVIEWS
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011)
I went into my midnight showing of Captain America: The First Avenger feeling not just exhausted but over-saturated, and feeling that if I had to endure one more superhero origin story I was going to shove a radioactive spider up my butt and let it munch me into an early, cancer-riddled grave. But then Captain America started, and I was shocked to realize it was—for the first hour or so at least—the best superhero movie of the summer. Continue reading
Filed under 2011 Films, MOVIE REVIEWS
