Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“…sometimes feels like the kiddie version of Inglourious Basterds.
“…good enough, which is a succinct way of describing the eight-movie franchise as a whole.
"Call me silly, but I thought a movie titled Cowboys & Aliens might be fun."
“…offers one of the richest character arcs I’ve seen in quite some time. And I’m talking about the chimpanzee.
“…part action flick and part vaudeville act, On Stranger Tides suggests a pirate movie made by Buster Keaton.
Based on the Marvel comic-book series that was tellingly launched during the civil-rights movement, X-Men has all the action and costuming a comic property requires, but it’s most interesting as an allegory about discrimination and intolerance. When super-powered mutants begin to appear and the United States government moves to control them, Magneto (Ian McKellen) calls
“…a movie that lets its nerd flag fly.
“This is twice now that Marvel Studios has made me care for a comic-book figure who initially struck me as dopey.
“…like the sci-fi flick Alfred Hitchcock never made.
“Every moment is prettified as if this were some sort of prestige project; there isn’t an image shot plainly if it couldn’t be reflected in a puddle.
