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The Batman 2022
My final A.V. Club review. Might as well use this space to say that I'm officially a free agent. Anyone in need of a writer and editor with a decade-plus of professional experience, shoot me a DM on Twitter.
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The Black Phone 2021
Full Rolling Stone review. Must be a bummer for Joe Hill to see his vaguely Kingish (and pretty effective) short story get turned into a full-blown knockoff of his famous dad's work.
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe 2022
Full review for The Guardian. Missed opportunity on the satirical front—I certainly didn't need, say, a Trump cameo, but why deposit these two into the present and then hinge so little of the comedy on 2022? Maybe Judge is saving that for the new episodes supposedly on the way. All that said, I guess I haven't grown up much in 30 years because I still find Beavis and Butt-Head themselves hilarious; think I laughed as long and hard (heh heh) as they did at the docking-procedural scene.
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Pivotal scene is the bluntly confessional conversation where the movie just comes right out and tells us that Warner Bros. was going to make more Matrix with or without everyone involved, so Lana and Keanu and company signed on to protect the franchise best they could. Afraid I don't find that daring so much as just depressingly revealing: a kind of apology for the film's very existence—and one that betrays the animating inspiration of the whole endeavor as a begrudged,…
