I honestly believe no other director has their finger on the pulse of their fans quite like Tyler Perry. It's made him critic-proof. No matter what any of us wannabe experts write or say, we won't stop his train. The crowds that turn up to his movies eat up whatever he dishes out. The box office proves it time and time again. In case I actually needed proof I got it, live and in-person. I saw it in a packed…

The parts of Ant-Man and the Wasp that work cancel out the parts that don’t. What we’re left with is a movie that’s not a complete waste of time, but certainly lesser than both its singular franchise predecessor, Ant-Man and its most recent MCU predecessors, Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther. As a time-passer, it’s perfectly fine, but adds almost nothing to the MCU narrative. In that sense, it only explains why Ant-Man wasn’t in Infinity War. It does have…