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Wow, talk about a fun ride from start to finish. The LEGO Batman Movie managed to make one of the most interesting and refreshing incarnations of the Batman character to date. If you're a hardcore fan of the character, a number of easter eggs and satirical humor revolving around the history of Batman will have you laughing out loud constantly. I found myself laughing minutes into the next scene after a number of gut busting one liner that never seemed to end. While the pacing did drag in the toward the end of the second act, I had a smile on my face throughout making this one of my favorites of the year so far.

Tom Halland is excellent as Spider-Man as well as Michael Keaton as The Vulture, giving us one of the most memorable MCU villains to date. While I thought the movie was charming and fun, I never found myself truly invested in the movie until the third act started. From that point on, I was in it until the end. But to me, this did feel like an MCU Spider-Man Movie. It never had that Raimi sense of urgency, especially in the action sequences. However, this is by far the best Spider-Man movie since Spider-Man 2 and I would go to rank this as the third overall best Spider-Man to date.

While I do believe this is Nolan's best movie to date, it's not necessarily my favorite. This is an achievement in filmmaking, especially in today's world. Very little dialogue is spoken, little to no character development is given, and almost nothing is explained to the audience. Instead, he takes us through a story told visually in such a compelling and unique way. With Hans Zimmer's pounding score and a thunderous sound design, he transports us right in the event of Dunkirk that deservers to be seen on the biggest screen possible.

This is indeed the epic finally that this franchise earned, making it in my mind, a perfect film trilogy. This is the best of the franchise and what makes it so special is the anti-blockbuster feel. This is 100% slow burn a drama that is purely character given. The special efforts are jaw dropping, the cinematography gorgeous, the music elevates each scene, and Andy Serkis once again delivers on one of the best performances of the entire year.

This might actually be the worst movie I have ever sat through in my life. This is just a product, solely made to make money. You can tell that the filmmakers didn't care about the quality of the movie. It's lazy, formulaic, lacks any kind of tension and just comes off as visual noise. I hate this movie. I hate everything about this movie. The convoluted plot, the atrocious dialogue, bland acting and a jarring aspect ratio made this agonizing to get through.

I can finally say it: DC did it! I loved this movie! Wonder Women exceeded my expectations and it continues to get better the more I think about it. Featuring thrilling action, great laughs and a great fish out of water story, this ended up being better than most of the MCU installments. Gal Gadot's charismatic and powerful performance brings the character to life making this my favorite origin story since the first Iron Man.

I didn't love this movie like I wanted to, but it's still a very good time at the theaters. James Gunn does a strong job with the characters here. Giving them more depth and truly making this a character driven film. But with that we also get a much more disjointed and sometimes choppy flow to the narrative. While not every plot line worked or some material felt recycled from the first film with a massive disappointment in the soundtrack department, Guardians 2 remains to be one of the better sequels released in the past couple of years and I'm excited to see where Gunn takes the characters next.

Fast 8 still retains the ridiculous fun and absurdity that the series is known for at this point. But despite some excellent set pieces, this doesn't quite have the same charm that's made the past few so good. And a major reason for that is the absence of Paul Walker. The interactions between the cast members doesn't feel the same without him and it did hurt my enjoyment of the film as a whole. Despite some standout moments between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, it feels like a mostly recycled film that is beginning to run out of ideas.

This is a tough film for me to judge. There isn't anything downright bad about the film. It's beautiful to look at and the cast members are all solid in their roles. However, I never found myself thinking that this film needed to be made and nothing about it really built on the existing mythology that enhanced it. Take the 2015 Cinderella, while it was a recreation of the original, the filmmakers made the characters stronger and built on the story to make it a more solid movie. That really isn't done here that's impactful to the story and in the end, it did just feel like a recreation **** movie.

It this movie flawed? For sure. It has cliches and it has tone issues. But being a fan of the series as a kid, Power Rangers delivered what I needed as a fan. Having a great balance between the cheesy camp fun of the TV show and enough of a modern update, this film had me smiling from start to finish.

Perhaps the best installment of this 17 year running franchise. This film is flat out great and a game changer in the comic book movie genre. Having the feel of a small budget indie film and class western, Logan earns it's R rating with its brutal violence that never feels forced. And if this is truly Hugh Jackman's final time as Logan, what a day to go out. Jackman delivers his best performance as Logan to date and straight up his best performance to date, worthy of Oscar consideration. Layered, emotionally powerful, Logan had me in tears by the end and it's something everyone should check out.

James McAvoy's committed performance in Split lead to his best performance he's ever given and one worthy of an Academy Award nomination. But it's not solely him driving this film, Ana Taylor-Joy was fantastic in this film as well and M. Night Shyamalan proves why he wasn't a one hit wonder. Through tense direction and suspense, he patiently takes the audience on a great character study that held my attention. And of course, THAT ending. Simply unexpected, I almost love this film.

Once the first twenty minutes passed, I was consistently entranced in the story. In a subdued and nuanced presence, Casey Affleck delivers a master class acting performance which ended up being my favorite male performance of the year. Emotionally draining and yet rewarding, Manchester By the Sea is one of the most natural feelings movies of the year along with the best.

Black Hawk Down meets Star Wars, that is what it's like watching Rogue One and it truly delivers on the action. This has some of the absolute best action sequences in any Star Wars film and it actually has what many of the films have lacked, stakes. Through good characters and terrific acting, Rogue One manages to succeed what most prequels fail to do, enhance the impact of later films. I see myself watching A New Hope through a new point of view and I have to say, Gareth Edwards made a Star Wars movie that stands on its own. Yes it's not a perfect movie, but it's a really good movie with minor flaws.

Arrival is one of the rare movies of today that challenges the audience about what's happening and that's what I liked most about it. Smart, complex and meticulously crafted, Amy Adams strong and vulnerable performance lead Arrival to be one of the best movies of the year.

A solid start to this new franchise, the World Building and establishing the Wizarding World in America was the most dynamic part of this film. Fantastic Beasts proved to be a weird movie to judge, there wasn't anything exceptional about the movie, at the same time there wasn't anything bad about it either. Fantastic Beasts proved to be a fun movie with two solid performances from Eddie Redmayne and Colin Farrell.

With a killer soundtrack, full of heart and an irresistible sense of charm not only in atmosphere but the characters as well, Sing Street quickly became the most underrated movie of 2016 so far. Sing Street is going to be one of those small indie movies that unrightfully went under the radar and should have been seen by more people. The feel good movie of the year.

Is Gerald Butler a badass? Sure he is. Is it enough to save this entire movie? Nope. Other than a cool tracking shot in the third act, London Has Fallen is an overall idiotic movie. I understand it's meant to be over the top and a throw back to classic 80s action films but it was style over substance through and through.

Being a big fan of the first two installments, I do think that this was a major step down for the franchise. Being aimed more for the younger audience this time around, it wasn't a bad movie. It had some good laughs, bright colors and Po's continuous story arc was interesting enough but didn't end up hooking me like the first two.

Hacksaw Ridge is one of those rare movies that reminds you even in the worst situations, that it can still bring out the best in a person. Through Mel Gibson's harsh direction and Andrew Garfield's humbled performance, they craft one of the absolute best movies of the entire year that will make you want to stand up and cheer by the time it ends.

The Accountant is one of the more interesting character study films I've seen in a good while, at least until it isn't. Ben Affleck's gives it his all in a subdued and nuanced performance which lead to one of his best performances to date. The film has too many subplots, it has too many characters and it does go on too long. However, the good out ways the negatives here and I hope this can become a new franchise in the future.

Deepwater Horizon is the most technically impeccable movie of the year so far. The visuals are stunning and the sound especially should be a shoe in for an Oscar nomination. This is also the most immersive movie that I've seen in a long while and the most impactful. The actors and director Peter Berg make Deepwater Horizon feel as real and authentic as it could be and it gives you a better understanding of what actually happened that night of April 20th.

Another year, another generic young adult novel adaptation. That's the best way to describe this movie: Generic. It starts off sloppy but somewhat interesting then proceeds to get dumber and dumber the longer it goes on. It is terrible? No but it's so middle of the road generic that it doesn't even matter.

While the plane sequences in the film are jaw dropping, I can't say anything else in Sully is. It's a well made movie with good performances but there wasn't anything exceptional about it. I feel like it's a cliche at this point to say that Tom Hanks is really good in a movie but that's the case with Sully. He absolutely carries the movie from start to finish in a slightly rushed and an uninspired by the numbers biopic.

It took the movie a little bit to get going but once it did, Hell or High Water developed into one of the best movies of 2016 so far. Everything about this film felt real and authentic from the dialogue, humor, location and the intense bank robbery scenes. Its one of the best directed movies of the year and especially one of the best acted films of 2016.

Miler Teller and an Oscar worthy Jonah Hill are both phenomenal in War Dogs. Taking inspiration from Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips finds a near perfect balance between gut busting laughs and tension filled drama that had me hooked from start to finish. To simply put it, I could have watched it for another hour.

Emma Roberts and Dave Franco's charisma is the only redeemable aspect of this far fetched, plot hole littered mess. Original for sure? Yes it is but the concept is the only thing that remotely worked for this film from start to finish.

By the numbers, predicable and an execution we've seen a million times before. But the three leads are what make the movie as decent and at times fun as it was, giving me more laughs than I would have expected.

Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill's return was by far the high point for this film. When the movie focuses on The Killing Joke story line, it's riveting and compelling. I'm not going to argue that the first 30 minutes of the movie is unnecessary, in some ways it is. It's filler for sure but that being said, is it good filler? Yes and it does strengthen the impact of what happens later in the film.

Beautifully animated and original but lacks a lot of the laughs that the trailer promised us. I counted maybe three or four gut busting moments during the course of the film and an ending so over the top that my jaw dropped and had me nearly rolling on the ground laughing. But a lot of the jokes they went with at a while got very stale and repetitive. While I was smiling and smirking at a good portion of it, this movie should have had me laughing consistently throughout.

At a story and narrative standpoint, Suicide Squad is a hot mess. Numerous plot holes, character motivations that don't add up, possibly the worst comic book villain ever, and I found the opening 30 minutes to be very frustrating to get through. But once we see the entire team form and interact, the movie slowly improved. Anchored by a great, charismatic Will Smith, an absolutely crazy Margot Robbie, along with the other actors saved the last two acts and make it a fun movie to experience for the rest of the run time.

Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass both return to the franchise on a high note with their fourth Bourne film together. Being the most action heavy of the Bourne films, I can say that I was never bored watching this film, not for a second. Some of the dialogue was clunky at the beginning and while I completely understand the complaint most people have with the film doing most of the same as the other three, it didn't bug me a whole lot. The Bourne films are all structured the same and executed the same for the most part but that being said, if they decided to do another movie with Damon, I do hope they try something new with the character.

While it may be my least favorite of the current rebooted series, that isn't exactly a bad thing. Justin Lin surprised me with his sharp direction giving us great humor, well handled action and nailing the most important part of Stat Trek, the characters. This is a film that totally gets it's characters and they make the movie what it is. While some of the closeup fight scenes were a little too quickly edited for me and some of the visuals felt a little too CG for me. I think that as an overall film, it lacks the charm of the first two and I doesn't feel quite as special as the first two either.

Director Alejandro Amenábar tries to recreate the style of the classic neo-noir thrillers as seen in the older days of Hollywood. While I appeciate the old fashioned approach to this story, it doesn't really work all that well. While he does build some good atmosphere at times and gets a very good Ethan Hawke performance, the whole film is a mess from the lack of character development, compelling dialogue and an often slow burn pace. Regression's ending: Possibly the worst of any movie of 2016 so far.

This feels more like an over the top cartoon where none of the actors are playing real people but caricatures. To my slight surprise however, this movie had more laughs to offer than I thought based on the trailer but that isn't saying much. Most of the jokes relied on shock value or the actors just cursing, screaming and overrating to whatever was going on than actually being funny. Mike and Dave isa predictable, formulaic, and an uninspired mess that got more and more cringe worthy as the run time went on.

Ghostbusters is most controversial and the most talked about movie of the year (right up there with Batman v Superman), it's the most disliked trailer on YouTube and also features maybe the worst marketing I've ever witnessed for a film. Now I'm saying this now, the first 1984 film is one of my all time favorite comedies and films in general, I love the first film and going into this I was really hoping it was going to be a good movie. So what's the result? Is this a good film? Not necessarily. The first half of the film is stronger than the second, it has the worst villain of the year and the constant cameos and references to the old film got really old really fast. But that being said, I was entertained throughout the course of the film. To my surprise, I found myself laughing throughout the course of the film (mostly through Mckinnon, Jones and surprising from a great comedic performance by Hemsworth who's fantastic). I also found that the four Ghostbusters all had a few great individual moments at one point or another and had really good chemistry as well. It's a sloppy film for sure but it's defiantly not one of the worst movies ever made like how some people are making it out to be.

Is it formulaic? Yes. Does it offer anything new? Not really. But Eddie the Eagle nonetheless is a heartwarming, funny and well made film anchored by great performances from Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman. While it does follow the normal cliches you'd see in this type of film, by the time the credits were rolling, I had a big fat smile on my face.

It's big, it's loud, it's ridiculous, it's packed full of action and it has Jeff Goldblum talking! What could this film be missing? One word, charisma. I'm not a huge fan of the first Independence Day film but what that film had that this one doesn't is a tongue in cheek type tone that didn't take itself serious. This one however took itself deathly serious and none of the big action scenes, terrible acting or bland one liners could save it from being a complete bore from start to finish.

How do you know you've seen great movie? When it becomes far superior upon a second viewing, Zootopia did that in flying colors. Initially I liked the movie now I can say that I nearly love it. Zootopia takes us on a fun. breezy and engaging journey with new great characters that destined to become classics in the Disney franchise. It's a rare animated film that adults may like more the kiddies do. Lets hope Disney doesn't pull a Pixar and take over a decade to get a sequel.

Free State of Jones boasts very good performances from its leads, especially from Mahershala Ali and of course Matthew McConaughey. But even they can't save this film from becoming nothing less than a bloated, boring, and often preachy history lesson that would serve best as a HBO mini-series.

Pixar managed to do what Universal Pictures failed to do last year, take a supporting character and successfully transition them into the leading role. The best way to describe Finding Dory is cute. It has good laughs throughout and a slew of great new characters, especially Hank the Octopus who is one of the best Pixar characters in recent memory. I did find that it does tend to follow the Pixar formula a little too closely and doesn't try anything really new. Is this better than Finding Nemo? Of course it's not, but does it need to be? No it doesn't. While it isn't great Pixar, it is good Pixar.

The sequel does what I thought the 2014 installment failed to do, capture the spirit of what made the TMNT cartoon so much fun to watch. It has its share of fun action scenes, some good laughs and the turtles are the best they've been since the 1990s. But with that being said, it's still not a good movie, in fact it's a pretty bad movie. However, I won't lie and say I wasn't entertained throughout the majority of the film and I left with a smile on my face.

A generic villain, big bombastic action sequences, and eye candy CGI is the direction X-Men Apocalypse takes, disregarding the strong, relevant commentary the series known for. Without a doubt the most "comic bookie" entry in the X-Men franchise thus far, X-Men Apocalypse is an entertaining movie for about 2/3s of the runtime before it completely falls apart in the third act

Offbeat, hilarious and original, The Nice Guys is a refreshing take on the buddy cop genre with pitch perfect writing from Shane Black and unexpectedly great comedic performances from Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.

The Russo Brothers not only managed to craft an incredibly entertaining installment of the MCU franchise with great humor, some of the most breathtaking action sequences in any super movie but make a worthy sequel to Captain America Winter Soldier. Civil War is one of the most mature super films to date that has thought provoking themes and a fantastic emotional core with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers that will leave you undecided on which team should choose to be on

Kevin Costner gives one of his most cringeworthy performances in Criminal, a poor excuse of an action film. The film wastes the talents of it's leads (even though I did enjoy Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot) in a complete mess of a story that makes as such sense as a Michael Bay film.

The Jungle Book is the most visually engrossing movie I've seen since Gravity. The voice cast including Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley and Christopher Walken and many others are all outstanding additions to the film. That being said I do feel as if The Jungle Book is overrated. Neel Sethi is fine as Mowgli but there are a few awkward moments. The story to me wasn't that investing even though it stays true to the source material (which I appreciate), just to me, I wasn't completely into the whole ****'s without a doubt a good movie but not the great one everyone has been making it to be.

Ben Affleck without a doubt is the best aspect of Batman v Superman. But for a movie called Batman v Superman, it lacks a lot of that. They seemed too concerned about setting up Justice League that they forget to make a good film. This film is a complete sloppy mess at a story stand point. Lacking a cohesive narrative, it doesn't know what it wants to be and for a good portion of this film I was miserable trying to get through it. Are there great moments in this movie? Absolutely there are! Ben Affleck is fantastic as Batman/Bruce Wayne, the opening 20 minutes is incredible and there are a few action sequences that caught my attention. However the negatives out way the positives in a landslide making Batman v Superman the first disappointment of 2016.

John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and first time director Dan Trachtenberg takes the audience on a heart pounding thrill ride that is 10 Cloverfield Lane. Never does this movie slow down, it constantly builds a daunt and claustrophobic atmosphere, that will leave you guessing what is actually happening until the very end that will most likely improve upon multiple viewings. So far, my favorite movie of 2016.

While it still contains multiple WTF moments, bland characterization and boring action sequences from it's procedure, Allegiant is admittingly a slight improvement from Insurgent. However it still continues the downfall of an overall hollow franchise.