BATMAN (1989) AND BATMAN & ROBIN (1997)
This week, we're watching a dynamic duo of movies: the film that started Hollywood's love affair with superheroes, and the film that almost ended it.
RADIOACTIVE GENERATES LIGHT, BUT LITTLE HEAT
Marjane Satrapi tries—but not, ultimately, hard enough—to build something interesting around the standard biopic formula.
THE 50 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 2010S
It was the biggest, most ambitious, most diverse, and best decade in television history. And these were my 50 favorite shows.
HAMILTON (2020)
The Unenthusiastic Critic is back, to face the ultimate test of her musical-hating convictions.
DRESSED TO KILL (1980)
The Unenthusiastic Critic is dressing down Brian De Palma's controversial thriller, released 40 years ago this week. Will she find it brilliant, offensive, both, or too ridiculous to be either?
OTHER RECENT POSTS
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
THE LOST BOYS (1987)
Sleep all day, party all night, never get old, never die. It's good to be the Unenthusiastic Critic.
- TELEVISION ·
WATCHMEN 1×01: "IT'S SUMMER AND WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF ICE"
In a textually dense, stunning debut episode, HBO's WATCHMEN announces its ambitious agenda of tackling the narratives of white supremacy in America.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
PHENOMENA (1985)
The Unenthusiastic Critic is bugging out, as our Halloween Movie Marathon continues with Dario Argento's weirdest movie.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
DON'T LOOK NOW (1973)
Our horror marathon continues with Nicolas Roeg's masterpiece of grief, marital disintegration, and impending doom. (In other words, it's business as usual for The Unenthusiastic Critic.)
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
A QUIET PLACE (2018)
It's quiet in here—a little TOO quiet—as The Unenthusiastic Critic continues her 2019 Horror Movie Marathon with John Krasinski's muffled monster movie.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
FRANKENSTEIN (1931) & BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
It's alive! The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2019 Halloween Movie Marathon gets underway with a classic creature double-feature from the golden age of the Universal movie monsters.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (1989)
We're recording our deepest, most intimate thoughts on Steven Soderbergh's seminal debut feature, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
The fall's probably gonna kill us, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Newman and Redford's quintessential buddy western with The Unenthusiastic Critic's first viewing.
- FIRST LOOK/LAST LOOK ·
THE I-LAND
The I-Land wants desperately to be Lost. Dull, derivative, and dumb, it should be lost, and it should stay lost.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
ARMAGEDDON (1998)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and it can't come fast enough for The Unenthusiastic Critic, as she endures her first viewing of Michael Bay's disaster porn.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982)
It's the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational episode of The Unenthusiastic Critic yet.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
ARTHUR (1981)
This week, The Unenthusiastic Critic is caught between the moon and New York City, as we sit down for Steve Gordon's dipsomaniacal comedy.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
The Unenthusiastic Critic is venturing into the heart of darkness for her first viewing of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, released 40 years ago this week.
- THE UNENTHUSIASTIC CRITIC ·
EASY RIDER (1969)
The Unenthusiastic Critic is firing all of her guns at once at a counterculture classic.
- FILM REVIEWS ·
ROCKETMAN (2019)
Dexter Fletcher's Rocketman is endearingly goofy, and occasionally moving, but only rarely transcends the shallow limitations of a jukebox musical.
- GAME OF THRONES ·
GAME OF THRONES 8×06: "THE IRON THRONE"
And now our watch is ended. But did Game of Thrones, or its characters, get the ending they deserved?
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