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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 24 Apr 2018

Avengers: Infinity War is epic in a way that has been often aspired to but never fully grasped when it comes to the translation from comic…

Review of Paddington 2 (2017)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 11 Jan 2018

Paddington 2 reminds us how difficult it can be to pull off a sweetly tempered, gently moving children’s movie by doing exactly that, and…

Review of Coco (2017)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 27 Nov 2017

The film represents a full embrace of a culture and its people, as well as a celebration of family, both present and past…

Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Nov 2017

The third film in the arguably least-loved franchise of Kevin Feige and company’s box office-melting enterprise, it’s also the liveliest,…

Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 03 May 2017

By the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the audience is unlikely to feel they’ve seen anything that different from Vol…

Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 May 2016

The way in which Captain America: Civil War brings together a dozen or so heroes, sorts them into not one but two teams and then flings them…

Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 20 Nov 2015

As far as structure, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has pretty much the same flaws as its source material…

Review of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Jul 2015

The only thing amazing about Marc Webb's reboot is how quickly a Hollywood studio can forget the lessons its own films have taught it…

Review of Spider-Man (1977)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 13 Jul 2015

The only thing amazing about Marc Webb's reboot is how quickly a Hollywood studio can forget the lessons its own films have taught it…

Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 31 Jul 2014

Marvel’s rambunctious entry into the space opera genre—and the cornerstone of its “Cosmic Marvel” roster of characters and storylines—so…

Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 May 2014

Ultimately, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is noteworthy for one thing—not waiting until the third or fourth film to achieve the overstuffed, increasingly…

Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Apr 2014

The newest Marvel blockbuster-to-be boasts an array of well-cast leads and supporting characters; a crisply paced, sensible plot; and above-average…

Review of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Dec 2013

The result is the indulgent treatment of an overindulgent character that feels more Penthouse Forum fantasy than morality tale…

Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 20 Dec 2013

With Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, McKay, Ferrell and company make a compelling case for the sequel that takes its time…

Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Nov 2013

[Hood's] Ender's Game captures much of the plot, and misses much of the magic, of its source material, substituting a fairly robust level of…

Review of Elysium (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Aug 2013

Blomkamp knows how to blow apart a body. Thankfully, he also knows how to engage in compelling speculative-world-building…

Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 18 Jul 2013

A movie that both distills and perfects the tradition from which it's drawn…

Review of Despicable Me 2 (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 Jul 2013

If the first film was in some ways a re-imagining of Seuss, with a grinchy Gru's heart growing from two sizes too small to one too large, Despicable…

Review of Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Jun 2013

In setting and tone, Much Ado manages to smoothly present a contemporary vision of the play's original setting of wealth and ease -- this is…

Review of This Is the End (2013)

By Michael Burgin (54) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 19 Jun 2013

This Is the End, in addition to being the funniest film of the year, is also the best buddies-versus-the-apocalypse film since Simon Pegg and…

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