Photograph: Allstar/New Line CinemaĪndy Muschietti’s mesmerising horror was as disturbing as its source material, reminding us that the most freakishly awful dreams are always those we had as children. Itĭark and brutal … Andy Muschietti’s It. Not only did Tom Holland’s Spidey slip effortlessly into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the new webslinger helped make all previous owners of the famous spider-suit look like dust mites in comparison. How do you solve a problem like Spider-Man? Could Marvel actually put the wallcrawler in his place at the top of the superhero pile after the Andrew Garfield era ended in such ignominy? The answer to both questions proved to be yes, as Cop Car’s Jon Watts intelligently blended comic-book stylings with John Hughes-esque teenage angst. The Tex-Mex badlands, a corner of the world that looked fairly dystopian even before the mutant apocalypse, were a natural setting for this bravura blend of superhero movie, western and noir. Logan pared down the X-Men to their essentials, reducing Wolverine and Professor X to a shadow of their former selves, somehow making them a hundred times more vital and intriguing in the process.
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Loganįinally a Wolverine movie worthy of Hugh Jackman’s excellent work as the grumpy adamantium-clawed mutant. That it will probably be another 35 before we are given another instalment is an indictment of modern Hollywood’s inability to try something different from the tried and tested without leaving its audience behind.
That it took 35 years to show us more of this fascinatingly creepy vision of an eternally dusky future Los Angeles seems like a tragedy.
Denis Villeneuve took the world created by Ridley Scott in 1982 and turned it into something far more complex and expansive, without ruining any of its essential enigmas. Photograph: Columbia Pictures/SonyĪn epic dystopian portent of the cursed Earth to come. An epic dystopia … Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049.