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• [New] | Emmanuel Báez @ Cinéfiloz [Spanish]
  • Excerpt: Shazam! moves along with great energy.
• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: An earnestly joyful experience that keeps things simple and focused on character. The cast is charming and the humor is sharp.
• Jim Dixon @ jim-dixon.com
  • Excerpt: Comparisons to Big are unavoidable, and SHAZAM! even acknowledges this with a sly wink and its own walk-on keyboard scene. Levi makes this work with a performance that’s knowingly guileless – no mean feat.
• Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
  • Excerpt: Ultimately Shazam! emphasizes the happiness in comic books. It’s the heart that shines through.
• MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: Nothing matters in this literal adolescent-male power fantasy, a cheesy mishmash of nonsense and low stakes. Anyone who needs at least a bit of meat in their superhero tales will be disappointed.
• [New] | Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
  • Excerpt: Consistently fun to watch and not without a heart, “Shazam!” is the kind of superior, eager-to-please superhero entertainment that puts a good amount of pep in the viewer’s step.
• [New] | Christian Long @ Glide Magazine
  • Excerpt: In the current spandex-stretched pop culture landscape, the Zachary Levi vehicle doesn’t seem to stand out in an over-saturated market.
• [New] | Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  • Excerpt: With Shazam!, the folks at DC have finally figured out the one major secret to Marvel’s success: While all of their movies have costumed protagonists, they aren’t strictly bound to the genre.
• [New] | Vince Mancini @ Uproxx
  • Excerpt: One of the most enjoyable comic book movies ever made.
• Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
  • Excerpt: Shazam!’ is so saccharine and hollow, the emotion so manufactured and false, and the goofiness wears so thin so fast, it becomes insufferable and leaves a lingering bad taste.
• Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
  • Excerpt: Levi will be the one you remember because of his childlike enthusiasm, but Angel grounds those antics to earth so they don’t hijack message for laughter.
• Jana Monji @ Age Of The Geek
  • Excerpt: Take your kids, take your friends and have fantastic fun laughing at this foible-filled superhero origins story.
• [New] | Frank Ochieng @ SF Crowsnest
  • Excerpt: [An] engagingly cheeky and robust popcorn pleaser. In any event, ‘Shazam!’ is a heroic hoot for the ages.
• [New] | Eddie Pasa @ Gunaxin
• Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
  • Excerpt: Zachary Levi’s schtick of superpowered shenanigans becomes the epitome of both the adjective and the noun variations of that choice word “zany.”

Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:

• [New] | Emmanuel Báez @ Cinéfiloz [Spanish]
  • Excerpt: Just another generic horror movie.
• [New] | Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
  • Excerpt: Pet Sematary is appropriately creepy and tense, but with a weak screenplay and direction to match, the horror movie is dead on arrival.
• [New] | Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: Has enough visceral thrills to make up for a rushed story.
• James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
• MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: A lazy adaptation of the Stephen King novel, manipulatively cheap when it isn’t provoking eye-rolls at its genre banalities. Why can’t someone find the right role for the charismatic Jason Clarke?
• [New] | Vince Mancini @ Uproxx
  • Excerpt: A solidly cast, utilitarian remake.
• Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
  • Excerpt: It’s…fine. That single underwhelming sentence pretty well sums up my feeling on the movie in total.
• [New] | Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
  • Excerpt: This Pet Sematary uses its characters so that its conceit can scare us when it should be the conceit that lets the Creeds frighten us by turning a mirror onto ourselves.
• Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
• [New] | Ruben Rigaud @ cocalecas.net [Spanish]
  • Excerpt: Treinta años después de la primera adaptación de la exitosa novela de Stephen King, “Pet Sematary”, los directores Kevin Kölsch y Dennis Widmyer traen una nueva versión cinematográfica.
• [New] | Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens

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• Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
  • Excerpt: The tension of silence and waiting is unbearable, as each character’s flaws and heroism comes to the fore.
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: While any movie about such a horrific event is subject to criticism of exploitation, Maras has given us…one which allows us to understand what it must have been like to endure this horror as well as one which honors truly heroic actions.
• [New] | Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
  • Excerpt: Hotel Mumbai tries so hard to separate Indian from Lashkar-e-Taiba that it forgets to separate out Islam too [as things] quickly devolve from docudrama to survival thriller.
• Jana Monji @ Age of the Geek
  • Excerpt: One should be kind to the help and blessings come in disguise.
• Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
  • Excerpt: The film Anthony Maras and his team have assembled shows the sort of understanding of how to capture tension, without drowning the film in unearned emotional turmoil.

Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:

• Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
• Emmanuel Báez @ Cinéfiloz [Spanish]
  • Excerpt: The CGI creation is extremely adorable the rest of the movie never gets off the ground.
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Dumbo is flat, even its airborne moments lacking magic.
• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: Dumbo is a major disappointment, lacking both the imagination of the original film and Tim Burton’s usual affection for misfits.
• [New] | Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
• James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
• Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
  • Excerpt: How director Tim Burton was able to take a heartfelt animated treasure and pervert it into this soulless shell of a disgrace takes a special kind of talent.
• MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: The most soulless of the live-action Disney remakes yet, weighted down by too many blah characters, too much convoluted plot, unconvincing CGI, and a message that doesn’t say what it thinks it does.
• Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  • Excerpt: Whenever I see a movie with bad computer generated images, I’m saddened to think Alan Turing died so that these abominations could happen.
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: Relentlessly bland and uninspired.
• Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
  • Excerpt: There’s not much here, but who needs more? Tim Burton’s remaking of Dumbo doesn’t overthink it.
• Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
  • Excerpt: It’s a whole lot of filler set to amaze audiences into thinking it has purpose beyond distraction. While pretty, that inherent hollowness still shines through.
• Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
• Ruben Rigaud @ Cc0calecas.net [Spanish]
• Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
• Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
  • Excerpt: Big or small, every fleck and flourish is distilled to a quainter potency fitting the subject matter.