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Battle of the Five Armies finds purpose and settles storylines amid a gargantuan battle, plus offers a reasonable runtime.

An overlong slog through exposition territory, Desolation of Smaug leaves characters dangling on the way to a spectacular finish.

Assembled Over the past decade, Marvel brought audiences toward this melee, beginning in Iron Man’s militaristic fantasy before turning into a wild, uncontrolled spectacle of comic book fiction. Avengers: …

Stark’s Arc The hero of the Marvel universe isn’t Tony Stark. Captain America couldn’t save us all either. Marvel’s movies – some 52 hours of storytelling – belong to …

Quantum-fied In a movie universe where the entire planet is under fire from a great evil, it’s hard to shrink down to Ant-Man and the Wasp. It’s fine, flush …

After space aliens, magic, and time travel were introduced in Marvel’s ‘universe,’ it’s Ant-Man and the Wasp that feels the most ridiculous. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) asks, “Do you …

Paul Rudd is Ant-Man, and Michael Pena is awesome Despite lacking a dominating villain – it’s Marvel’s weak spot – Ant-Man is a wry pleasure. Paul Rudd’s performance ups …

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, ANT-MAN! Paul Rudd lives the dream of every ’80s kid – one of their dreams anyway – in becoming the central …

Battle of the compression codec Yes, it’s too long. No, it did not need to be three movies. But, The Hobbit is no less fun. Bilbo may be almost …

We’ve now been to Mordor and back again At some point in this trilogy of Hobbit spectacles, the Hobbit was lost. Martin Freeman’s lowly Bilbo, with his face contorting …

For its opening breeziness, Desolation still turns into a screen hog, if not to overflowing capacity.

Hollywood made a movie about Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, and it's good. Really good. The Mayans were right; we're all screwed.