TV #35 of 2019: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., season 6 With its future still uncertain at the time, the previous season of Marvel’s sci-fi spy show ended in such a way that it could have functioned as a series finale if necessary. Instead, the program got renewed for two final outings, leaving this first one …
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Movie #9 of 2019: Avengers: Endgame (2019) These tentpole Marvel movies are tricky to review individually, because each one is so intertwined with both the past and the future of the franchise. Case in point: everyone knew that this latest Avengers flick would find some way of walking back the unfathomable calamity of the previous …
TV #27 of 2019: Marvel’s Jessica Jones, season 3 A confident send-off to both this series and the larger Netflix corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, canceled in the lead-up to the new Disney+ streaming platform. The serial killer bad guy could sometimes feel like he wandered in from a show like Dexter, but I …
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Movie #14 of 2018: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) This is a weird movie to review. On the one hand: I really enjoyed watching it! The 2:40 runtime absolutely flies by, and it’s such a joy to see all (okay, most) of the characters Marvel has built up over the years finally bouncing off one another. …
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Movie #12 of 2018: Thor: Ragnarok (2017) By far the best Thor movie, and one of the better Marvel Cinematic Universe movies overall. Lots of humor, neat worldbuilding, and actual character growth for Thor and Loki! It could have done better by its female characters, but all in all it was a fun ride and …
Movie #10 of 2018: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) I missed this Marvel movie in theaters, in part because I didn’t see a whole lot of people talking about it. (And, honestly, because my fatigue over Spider-Man reboots had finally reached Batman levels.) As much as I liked Spidey in Captain America: Civil War and as happy …
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Movie #8 of 2018: Doctor Strange (2016) I watched and reviewed this movie last year, and my thoughts are about the same: I’m still happy with my decision to wait until Doctor Strange was on Netflix to watch it (so as to hurt box office returns in protest of the casting). But having now finally …
Movie #19 of 2017: Thor: Ragnarok (2017) By far the best Thor movie, and one of the better Marvel Cinematic Universe movies overall. Lots of humor, neat worldbuilding, and actual character growth for Thor and Loki! It could have done better by its female characters, but all in all it was a fun ride and …
Movie #7 of 2017: Doctor Strange (2016) I’m still happy with my decision to wait until Doctor Strange was on Netflix to watch it (so as to hurt box office returns in protest of the casting). But having now finally seen the thing, I will freely admit that it was a pretty good movie in …
Movie #6 of 2017: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017) This sequel takes everything I loved about the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie and turns it up to 11. It helps that the team is already in place at the start of the film, so we get more of their banter and prickly …
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