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This article was originally published 1/9/2024. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to our newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe Real-world injustice has always driven the movies (see my article “Movies Shouldn’t Be Political”). As it should; making large-scale movies about real-world topics can truly affect change. But the audience’s annoyance at making that connectionContinueContinue reading “Are Social Justice Superheroes Bad? (Spoilers, no)”

This article was originally published 12/05/2023. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to our newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe To have a legitimate conversation about the state of movies, we need to get one baseline assumption out of the way. Cinema can be and (almost) always is political. If you are a self-interrogative, artistically aware person thenContinueContinue reading ““Movies Shouldn’t Be Political””

This very quick (and very old) ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 7 Episode 1 review was originally published on the AnthonyReviews Substack on 11/6/2023. To get the latest AnthonyReviews writing first, subscribe to the newsletter below. It’s free! Subscribe Tentatively pessimistic. That’s how viewers likely feel after the premiere of the latest Rick and Morty episode starring newcomersContinueContinue reading “The Beginning of ‘Rick and Morty”s End?”

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania isn’t even the fast food meal we usually expect from the MCU, but a pale carrot on a stick promising more of whatever you like; watching it feels like eating a menu. Marvel’s superhero films have long been accused of being commercials for themselves. At their best, they at least rebelContinueContinue reading “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: Barely An Impression of a Movie”

Like its protagonist, Encanto is gifted in less obvious ways than its Disney peers. Under the surface, the film’s story is tapping into the heartbeat of a generation at odds with its ancestors’ way of doing things. Its standardized aesthetics and house of mouse be-true-to-yourself narrative hypnotize youth to bring a strong message of intergenerationalContinueContinue reading “Encanto‘s Intergenerational Trauma Explored Through Disney Hallmarks”

In his third directing work Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin proves once and for all that he’s better off handing his witty prose to someone who knows where to place a camera, or else he runs the risk of being misjudged as another outdated and insensitive white male. The creator of The West Wing andContinueContinue reading “Being the Ricardos Review: “Mr. Sorkin, You’re Not Needed on Set””