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The Accountant 2

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  • Title: The Accountant 2
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Pretty much the entire cast from The Accountant returns for its sequel with the notable absence of Anna Kendrick. Following the death of her mentor Ray King (J.K. Simmons), Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) enlists the help of Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) who pulls in his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) making the sequel more of an odd couple buddy action-comedy. The mystery involving the death of Ray is a bit of a convoluted mess involving an amnesiac killing machine (Daniella Pineda) and a family fleeing El Salvador that eventually our protagonists will unwind.

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Nobody

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  • Title: Nobody
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Falling into the same pattern of films such as First Blood, John Wick, The Equalizer, and Taken, Nobody offers the same advice that you should be very careful with who you pick a fight with. Bob Odenkirk stars an unassuming middle-aged family man who is woken out of his slumber by a break-in. Allowing the robbers to make off with a limited amount of cash, which only makes friends and neighbors think less of him, Hutch hits a breaking point that isn’t satisfied by tracking down the thieves. However, he is mollified by beating up a gang of thugs on-board his regular bus route that leads to an entirely new set of problems. Hutch’s wild night triggers a battle with Russian mobsters reveals his past as a covert agent working as an auditor and eliminating threats for the United States Government when no other outcomes were available.

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Small Soldiers

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  • Title: Small Soldiers
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Originally intended to be  slightly edgier teenage fair until the studio decided to make it more fan friendly during production in order to cash-in on promotional tie-ins, 1998’s Small Soldiers became a mix of those two concepts leading to a lukewarm reaction by both critics and moviegoers. You can certainly see director Joe Dante struggling to serve both masters, especially given how much of the film was shot prior to the imposed change in direction.

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Commando

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  • Title: Commando
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back 40 years to perhaps the most Schwarzenegger movie Arnold Schwarzenegger ever made. More than 20 years before Taken, Schwarzenegger stars as retired Special Forces Colonel John Matrix. After a precredit sequence showing several other former soldiers killed, and a goofy credit montage showing Matrix living it up in the woods as a stay-at-home dad, Matrix’s daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by an old enemy (Dan Hedaya) and an old friend (Vernon Wells) who plan to blackmail Matrix into committing an assassination. Matrix, however, has other ideas and begins killing his way back to his daughter.

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Superman

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  • Title: Superman (2025)
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It may not be great, but James Gunn‘s first outing with the Man of Steel certainly outshines any recent depictions of the character. Not shying away from the immigrant story of an alien adopted by human parents making Earth his home, 2025’s Superman does what David Goyer and Zack Snyder struggled so mightily with every step of the DCEU – it finds the heart of the character who, despite being alien, is human in all the right ways.

Superman captures some of the feel of Richard Donner‘s original while also adding enough of its own touches (including teasing us with variations to John Williams‘ original theme) to make it stand out more than Superman Returns. It’s a bit too zany in places for me, and a bit too obvious in nods to current events, but when Superman stays focused on its titular character there’s an awful lot to like here.

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