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Category: Reviews
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Birds of Prey is fun but flawed
Despite strong performances and fun, colorful visuals, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is definitely lacking on substance to go with that all that style.
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Denver Film Critics Society’s Top Films of the Year
Trashwire is a member of the Denver Film Critics Society, which means we get the privilege of collaborating with our fellow Denver-area film nerds to nominate and select our favorite films of the year. Did your favorites make the list?
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‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ non-spoiler review
It’s that time again, time for the entire internet to collectively lose its mind over a Star Wars movie. Somewhere between all the hyperbole is the reality about The Rise of Skywalker.
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‘Booksmart’ offers a refreshing update to teen movie tropes
Every generation has a their teen movies, but ‘Booksmart’ seeks to update teen comedy tropes for the woke generation with sharp, authentic, hilarious results.
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‘Marriage Story’ gives an engaging, emotional look at divorce
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson bring real-life emotion to divorce in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’.
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‘The Irishman’ struggles under the weight of its runtime
Take legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and give him one of the strongest casts you could imagine—Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and even Joe Pesci—and ‘The Irishman’ has to be one of the best films of the year, right? Well, it’s complicated.
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‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ a reunion that works
It’s hard to do a sequel 10 years and several Oscar nominations down the road from an original idea, but ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ manages to give us something fun and entertaining, even when it’s not quite as great as the original.
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How Game of Thrones’ Penultimate Episode Could Have Been Fixed
SPOILER ALERT! The final season of HBO’s epic series Game of Thrones is proving to be the show’s most controversial—but it’s not because of brutal content; it’s because many fans are disappointed in the rushed storylines and unresolved character arcs. With that in mind, here are a few things that could improve the penultimate episode,…
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Captain Marvel’s biggest battle is fighting audience superhero fatigue
Captain Marvel is here! And accompanying her are dudes complaining about feminism, social commentators applauding representation, and a multi-billion-dollar franchise that turned Disney into the overlord of entertainment. So, great conditions to enjoy a popcorn superhero movie, right?
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ saves the day for TV comic adaptations
‘The Umbrella Academy’ is a character-driven family drama about superheroes in a sea of action-driven epics, and that makes it a tremendously satisfying watch that hooks you from the start and keeps you engaged through the end credits of the final episode.
