Michael McDunnah

Owner of www.unaffiliatedcritic.com, co-host of The Unenthusiastic Critic podcast.

Favorite films

  • Grand Illusion
  • Casablanca
  • Of Gods and Men
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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  • Air

    ★★★

  • Paris Is Burning

    ★★★★★

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    ★½

  • Slums of Beverly Hills

    ★★★½

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  • Air

    Air

    ★★★

    Competent enough as a film, but absolutely masterful as proof that there is no story of Black excellence that cannot be repurposed to center and celebrate mediocre White men.

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    ★½

    Everyone: “The worst part of every Marvel movie is the last half hour when it inevitably degenerates into messy, noisy, incomprehensible CGI nonsense.”

    Marvel: “So you’re saying the whole movie should be like that?”

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  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    ★½

    The writing is terrible. The fight scenes are messy and badly choreographed. It might be the worst looking Marvel movie ever, and that is a low bar to clear. And the whole thing seems to be a series of contrivances designed to pander to nostalgia for things I can't believe anyone is nostalgic for. Have they really succeeded in lowering expectations this far?

  • Glass Onion

    Glass Onion

    ★★★

    Undeniably fun, but there's a disappointing waft of sequelitis here, with a more exotic location, flashier sets and setpieces, a more cartoonish approach, and considerably less heart than the original.