Culture editor for The Bulwark and Washington Post contributor. I also cohost the Sub-Beacon podcast and host The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood.
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Spider-Man 3 2007
Boy, there are so many things that are wrong with this movie. Kind of puzzlingly wrong. Like: Peter being bullied in a high-level physics class at NYU? What? College isn't high school!
OK, small thing, but still. Worse than that is the woefully generic nature of so much of the action, exacerbated by the villain bloat. The action sequences in the other films all had a pretty distinctly Raimi-esque feel to them, lots of dutch zooms, or the thing where…
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Spider-Man 2 2004
The Doc Ock surgery scene remains the single greatest "fight scene" in comic book movie history. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Burn After Reading 2008
"What did we learn, Palmer?"
"I don't know, sir."
"I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again."
"Yes, sir."A fitting coda to the Trump era.
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