Chris Klimek

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• 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Celebrates Inclusion

  The animated film argues that movies are better if you open them up to everyone. The movie says, "Anyone can wear the mask," and indeed, multiple characters do, including Miles Morales, the first Afro-Latino Spidey.

  Dec 22, 2018 at 2:44 pm

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• 'Hellboy': Hell, No

  Comics creator Mike Mignola's gruff demon-hero gets a hard-R reboot that swaps out the charm of director Guillermo del Toro's previous iterations and replaces it with "chaotic, repetitive" gore.

  Apr 11, 2019 at 2:00 pm

• Blockbuster Films Keep Getting Longer; How And Why Did We Get Here?

  Critic Chris Klimek crunches the numbers to examine how and why blockbuster films like Avengers: Endgame grew to such great, bladder-busting lengths.

  Apr 26, 2019 at 3:10 am

• 'Ad Astra' Soars

  Distance — both interplanetary and emotional — is the subject of James Gray's "stirring sci-fi epic" that stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.

  Sep 19, 2019 at 2:00 pm

• Why Are There No New Christmas Songs?

  Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is back at the top of the chart a quarter century after it was first released. So why haven't there been any lasting Christmas songs to take its place?

  Dec 17, 2019 at 10:50 am

• Weekly recommendations from Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts and guests

  A top-secret cache of sperm is stored under the Space Needle in Hot White Heist. Bob Odenkirk stars as a suburban dad with a secret identity in Nobody. And it's Criterion Collection's neonoir month.

  Jul 09, 2021 at 8:46 am

• Daniel Craig is the bookend Bond, giving 007's story a beginning — and an end

  The last James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig is out today; Chris Klimek argues that Craig is the "bookend Bond," showing us 007 at the beginning and end, but never the prime of his career.

  Oct 06, 2021 at 4:00 am