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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Matt Minton |Jake Schreier
The first half of Thunderbolts (and not that other title) has the kind of scaled, measure scope - watching the titular characters get literally stuck in a room and forced to work together against their instincts - that has been sorely missing from recent Marvel projects. Physical comedy is at its highest and the cast, for the most part, is firing on all cylinders.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jake Schreier |Jon Winkler
Gotta be honest...Bucky needs a haircut. I mean you live in Brooklyn, dude. There's gotta be a good barber around town that can clean you up. I'm being very generous with this rating since this is very, aggressively "fine" despite my exhaustion with the MCU. I gave this one extra half-star for one scene in particular: when The Void first appears and causes the helicopter crash creating chaos in the street.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Stephen Bjork |Jake Schreier
It's all in the asterisk. Superficially, THUNDERBOLTS* may seem to be just that: a footnote to the rest of the MCU, a random collection of rejects from other storylines who had nowhere else to go. And to be fair, that's exactly how Marvel has been promoting it, leaning heavily into the SUICIDE SQUAD angle of a group of castoffs being recruited to work together against their will. Yet while they do end up working together (more or less, anyway), this isn’t really a team-up like the Suicide Squad.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Ben Errington |Jake Schreier
★★★★ Unexpectedly great for a multitude of reasons despite the recent dip in MCU features making a new release far less of an event these days. The cast of characters that makes up the titular group of loveable misfits shouldn’t work together as well as they do but the writing, along with solid direction from Jake Schreier, allows each anti-hero to thrive in what feels like an honest and raw account of guilt, regret and of course, depression. The latter is realised in a very literal way with...
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Matt Hurt |Jake Schreier
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Kevin T. Rodriguez |Jake Schreier
“Thunderbolts*” is probably the first movie I’ve reviewed where there is an Asterix in the title. Well, alright, I am aware that Woody Allen’s “Everything You’ve Always Want to Know About Sex* (*But Were Too Afraid to Ask)” exists, but I haven’t written a review for that one (and I’m not going to discuss it in a review that kids will likely read).
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jeff Lowe |Jake Schreier
★★★★ 87/100 - On one hand, this was a return to form for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but on the other hand, this was a journey into a territory that also felt fresh and new. 'Thunderbolts*' balances out the charm and fun of the MCU but also manages to explore some pretty heavy themes that tie perfectly into the story. There are many familiar beats, but the look of the movie stuck out in a good way, especially the stylistic choices surrounding the main antagonist. It's been a rough patch...
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jake Schreier |Giovanni Lago
★★★ It’s comical how Marvel got Jake Schreier to do Beef Redux (Superhero edition) but swapped out the culturally specific baggage that wains on those characters in exchange for the traumas derived from these This is far from a return to form for the MCU industrial complex but it has far more signs of life residing it in with actual color grading, practical sets, and humor that doesn’t always feel entirely forced into every other moment. It also helps that Florence Pugh (and that signature...
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Caleb Burnett |Jake Schreier
“We're brought up with this belief that there are good guys and there are bad guys… But eventually you come to realize that there are bad guys and there are worse guys.”– Valentina Allegra de FontaineThe best Marvel film in a while, and highly consequential for the future of the MCU. A deep conversation about battling the inner darkness of life and healing from the past, all while fighting for those you love and a future you want to see.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jonathan Lack |Jake Schreier
This movie is frustrating because of how much of it is genuinely good. It’s really well-directed. It looks shockingly good for Marvel. The action works. It has several great characters in Yelena, Bucky, Red Guardian, and a bunch of good performances from Pugh, Stan, Harbour, plus Julia-Louis Dreyfuss and Lewis Pullman. It actually invests in trying to build up a team of new heroes, which Marvel should have been doing 5 years ago.
