But also by Captain America.

We all have favorites that we insist ought to be on this list, but I take it more as a reminder that literally hundreds of good movies have come out in the past 10 years, and it’s pretty much impossible for anyone but a film critic to have seen all of them. May this list serve as a reminder that all of our pop culture…

It’s a charming, super-breezy movie. But name another charming, super-breezy kid’s movie from the past 10 years that’s as good as the Paddingtons.

Plot and dialogue are over-rated.

Three nits to pick:

Possibly because despite this being a list of films from the past ten years, and The Dark Knight came out... eleven years ago.

Visual effects are usually the last thing to be completed in the movie, besides the score. Chances are, when the first trailer dropped, the scenes with Sonic were the only ones that had been finished and rendered.

Sonic’s original design is number one in a long, tired list of things that look not that great about this movie

George Lucas tried to “fix” Star Wars.

I imagine they’ll rope him in for cameos now and then. Like the Spider-Man assembly PSA, or Loki pretending to be Cap that one time.

Now it’s time to tell some new stories.

That idea has been around a LONG time. The genius asshole trope is at least as old as Odysseus, and includes Dr. Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, every quirky detective and doctor on TV in the 2000s, Walter White, and an ungodly number of actual people, from Ernest Hemingway and Thomas…

This is amazing technology. This must have been what they were working on instead of making Fresco and Photoshop cross-compatible.

The color is black. It’s indescribable because even in Lovecraft’s day, you probably weren’t allowed to describe black people in print the way he would have liked.

I don’t know about cinema, but Marvel Studios are fucking cowards. Always pulling their punches.

Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns. One says “What if superheroes are pointless and can’t save the day” and the other says “What if superheroes are fascist and that’s great!”

treating feature films like a long-running serial TV drama.

I semi-agree? When you boil it down, all superhero stories have the same plot: “Bad guy wants to do bad things, and only the special good guy can stop him and save the day.”

The question of cinema isn’t about quality. The question is about creative risk. How much is a studio willing to risk on a movie about difficult, complicated, unusual ideas?

That quote might mean something if either of those characters paid any sort of price for their actions. It’s not like anyone is bursting into tears of sadness every time Steve is forced to fight some people for Bucky.