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2018-12-20T14:36:46-06:00

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The Year’s Best Movies (According to Me)

Last updated on: December 20, 2018 at 2:36 pm By Paul Asay

Reviewing movies is hard, people. You have to watch a lot of movies, and then you have to—get this—write about them. So. Much. Work. And then, if they’re especially good, you have to figure if they belong on year-end lists and where to put them. My list isn’t necessarily definitive. I haven’t seen every movie this year, and part of me wishes I could leave a space or two blank for films I might be watching in the coming days.... Read more

2018-12-14T11:09:42-06:00

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Forget the Avengers: Roma Gives Us The Year’s Greatest Hero

Last updated on: December 14, 2018 at 11:09 am By Paul Asay

Roma begins in water. It’s all we see at first—the water washing over black-and-white tile like a tide. Most movies, if they contained a scene like this at all, would hold the shot for just a second or two. But director Alfonso Cuarón lingers here for minutes, and in so doing the moment unfolds like a flower. We see not just the water, but the tile underneath, the soap bubbles clinging to the surface, the reflection of a faraway plane,... Read more

2018-12-09T16:39:55-06:00

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And the Most Religious Superhero Movie of the Year is … Deadpool 2?

Last updated on: December 9, 2018 at 4:39 pm By Paul Asay

Deadpool fans were treated to a new poster last week, right in advance of the PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2, called Once Upon a Deadpool. It features a heavenly array of angels and puppies and bubbles and Fred Savage, plus Deadpool himself dressed in robes, looking a little like Jesus. The tagline: “Yule Believe in Miracles.” Maybe the movie’s biggest miracle is that we have a full-length movie at all: I would’ve thought that, after its makers cut out all... Read more

2018-12-07T08:54:49-06:00

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Avengers End Game Cometh, and It Has a New Trailer

Last updated on: December 7, 2018 at 8:54 am By Paul Asay

“Now is not the end,” Winston Churchill said in Nov. 1942. “It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Is Avengers End Game won’t be the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, of course. But it does mark an end of something, and likely the end of a few of our favorite superheroes to make way for others. And the beginning of the end–or the end of the beginning–officially started... Read more

2018-12-01T17:35:13-06:00

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George H.W. Bush is Gone, But His Faith Lives On

Last updated on: December 1, 2018 at 5:35 pm By Paul Asay

George H.W. Bush first spoke of “a thousand points of light” in New Orleans, as he was accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention. He first used it as a reference to America’s volunteer organizations, then wrapped up his speech by saying that he would “keep America moving forward, always forward—for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of light.” Bush was never known as an electric speaker like Mario Cuomo or... Read more

2018-11-28T08:27:46-06:00

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The Inspirational Isolation of Free Solo

Last updated on: November 28, 2018 at 8:27 am By Paul Asay

I review movies for a living, and I’ve seen plenty of horror flicks this year. From A Quiet Place to The Nun to the newest Halloween, I’ve been subjected to my share of jump scares and creeping chills. But National Geographic’s Free Solo is the most terrifying movie of the year. No homicidal maniac haunts this film, no hungry alien lurks in its corners. The terror is right in front of you—El Capitan, a 3,200 feet of granite cliff shooting... Read more

2018-11-26T11:03:46-06:00

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Daredevil is Television’s Bloodiest, and Best, Show About Faith

Last updated on: November 26, 2018 at 11:03 am By Paul Asay

The third season of Netflix’s Daredevil begins with a black baptism. Its first few seconds give us a broiling mass of fire and water, the aftermath of last year’s Defenders finale. In that finale Matt Murdock, a.k.a. Daredevil, helped once again to save New York (with a little help from his friends), but everyone thought he died in the process. He and villain/hero/girlfriend Electra were buried underneath a mountain of rubble, and surely both were dead and gone. Not so... Read more

2018-11-23T11:47:55-06:00

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We Share Good News at Christmastime: The Grinch Shows Us How

Last updated on: November 23, 2018 at 11:47 am By Paul Asay

No one likes it when carolers attack. That’s especially true if you’re the Grinch, who hated Christmas. Still, when you live near the Christmas-crazy town of Whoville, it’s hard to get away from it completely. And in the new Universal movie named after him (based, of course, on the Dr. Seuss book and the timeless television special), Mr. Grinch braves the Christmas-besotted enclave to pick up some provisions for his mountaintop retreat. Our green anti-protagonist is immediately assaulted by Christmas... Read more

2018-11-21T14:36:05-06:00

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In Creed II, Rocky and Moses Have a Lot in Common

Last updated on: November 21, 2018 at 2:36 pm By Paul Asay

Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) wins the heavyweight title belt early on in Creed II, which opens today in theaters across the country. But for much of the movie, the guy doesn’t feel like much of a champion. He feels beaten, humiliated and scared. And a fight against Viktor Drago—a mountain of a man (and the son of Ivan Drago, the boxer who killed Adonis’ father) looms. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), Adonis’ trainer, knows the fight will be the biggest... Read more

2018-11-16T15:28:03-06:00

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Newt’s a Saint in ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’. Really.

Last updated on: November 16, 2018 at 3:28 pm By Paul Asay

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald opens, appropriately enough, with a gathering storm. Silver-tongued villain Gellert Grindelwald, tossed in prison in the last Fantastic Beasts film, makes a spectacular break for freedom in the movie’s first moments, conjuring a storm to aid his escape. Setting up a home base in early 20th-century Paris and driven by the idea of a magic-dominated world in which non-magical muggles are (in Grindelwald’s own words) simply “beasts of burden,” the wizard rallies his supporters... Read more

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