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  ‘Avengers: Endgame ’ Review: A Messy Love Letter to the Biggest Movie Franchise of the Century After the monumental cliffhanger of "Infinity War," the Marvel Cinematic Universe concludes its latest phase with an epic nostalgia trip. “Avengers: Endgame” By assembling a decade of superhero narratives into the spectacular package that was “Avengers: Infinity War,” Marvel Studios pulled off the most dramatic blockbuster gamble of all time. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo imported the complex world-building approach from generations of Marvel Comics into a cinematic whole, creating a noisy mishmash of beloved characters and CGI-laced showdowns. It was a unique negotiation between spectacle and character, more impressive than anyone could have anticipated. But it would have been little more than a costly collage without the most dramatic cliffhanger in modern history, and “ Avengers: Endgame ” strains from contending with the fallout of that twist. Few spoilers follow here, thoug...

If you’ve been eagerly waiting for  Love, Death & Robots Volume 2  ever since its announcement (like me), it’s finally here! It’s a shorter anthology this time with only 8 episodes as opposed to 18 in the previous season. It’s dark, strange, and uncomfortable in some places, which is precisely what I expect from this series. Now, if you’ve already watched it or are planning to watch it, here’s my Love, Death & Robots Season 2 review where I share my thoughts about this amazing animated show. Love , Death & Robots Volume 2 Review The 8 episodes in Love, Death & Robots Season 2 are: Automated Customer Service Ice Pop Squad Snow in the Desert The Tall Grass All Through The House Life Hutch The Drowned Giant The show promises Love, Death & Robots but a few episodes didn’t have it all. But that’s okay if the stories are amazing, which unfortunately is not the case here. While watching S2, I ended up comparing the stories to those in Volume 1 which were piteous...

  ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Review Volume 1: David Fincher and Tim Miller’s Netflix Shorts Are One-Dimensional Beauty Too often hyper-masculine and half-baked, the Netflix series offers distinct visual styles that need more substance. “Love, Death & Robots” Good ideas wasted are often more infuriating than no idea at all. Such is the case with Tim Miller and David Fincher’s series of animated short films, “Love, Death & Robots,” a project conceived with broad ambition and executed with a maddeningly narrow perspective. Uniting animators from around the world for 18 standalone stories of various self-determined lengths, the  Netflix  offering intends to be a “global celebration” of the craft. While there’s a lot to admire in the visuals — each distinct to their episode, with an enticing range of styles on display — the stories themselves are treated like an afterthought, and that colors everything an ugly shade of gray. Only one-third of the first season was scree...