Review: Is Captain America: Civil War (2016) The Best Film In The MCU’s Phase Three?
For Marvel fans, Captain America: Civil War just about has it all: thought-provoking themes, eye-popping action sequences and a super-sized cast.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Ant-Man (2015) Review: Is The MCU’s Smallest Film Really Its Worst One?
With lower stakes and a lighter touch, Ant-Man is largely successful when it sticks to this approach (and somewhat less so when it doesn’t), adding more dimension and flavor — sometimes quite literally — to the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Review: The Avengers (2012), the MCU’s First Box Office Juggernaut
A fun but somewhat frustrating film, The Avengers is an A+ production with a C+ story that is entirely forgettable.
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Review: Why Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) is the MCU’s Indiana Jones
The best MCU Phase One movie, Captain America: The First Avenger may be yet another superhero origin story film, but it fuses elements of Indiana Jones into the narrative in a way that continues to feel fresh years later.
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How The Godfather Part II (1974) Casted The Ghost Of Marlon Brando
No Brando? No problem. The Godfather Part II creatively examines both sides of the Don Corleone coin without paying Brando a cent.
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How The Godfather‘s (1972) Unique Structure Gives It Literary Depth
The Godfather Part II’s parallel narrative structure is often cited as unique, but the original’s use of an extended prologue is just as groundbreaking.
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Why Saving Private Ryan (1998) Was a Quantum Leap for the War Genre
Steven Spielberg’s technical masterpiece Saving Private Ryan remains one of the very best films in the war genre and qualifies as a Great American Film.
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