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Joe George

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Joe George’s writing has appeared at Den of Geek, Wealth of Geeks, Think Christian, The Progressive, and elsewhere. His book The Superpowers and the Glory was published by Cascade Books in 2023. Joe shares his work from @joewriteswords on all socials.

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One of Them Days (2025) 94% 3.5/4 “One of Them Days, the film debut of director Lawrence Lamont and writer Syreeta Singleton, mines the maddening nature of struggling to make ends meet for comedic gold. ” – The Progressive Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% 4/4 “[Warfare's] emphasis on the subjectivity of war allows Mendoza and Garland to cut through the political and economic issues surrounding the Iraq War to instead focus on the experience of war in the moment, and the humanity within it. ” – The Progressive Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 78% 3/5 “Anyone who wants to enjoy The Accountant 2 must be willing to overlook these glaring departures from reality... But anyone who can approach The Accountant 2 as pure fiction will have a blast and enjoy it as a fun and dumb crowdpleaser. ” – Den of Geek Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 15% 1/5 “Proper filmmakers would worry about the baggage carried by these tropes and an overreliance on typecast performers. Such storytellers would strive to make these characters and performances defy or exceed audience expectations. Not so with the Russos.” – Den of Geek Mar 13, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 78% 4/5 “Despite its occasional supernatural nods ... The Monkey isn’t interested in showing anyone how to live. It’s more interested in pitch-black comedy and gross-out gags. ” – Sojourners Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% 3/5 “In its best moments, Brave New World feels cheap and lean, like a thriller you’d watch Sunday afternoon on TNT in the 1990s. Disney probably doesn’t want to hear that, but the cheap quality works in its favor.” – Den of Geek Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) 20% 2/5 “Section 31 becomes so boring and ugly that it no longer can be seen as bad Star Trek. Heck, it can’t even be called bad sci-fi or bad genre work. It seems to have no interest or understanding in doing any of them well.” – Den of Geek Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 50% 4/5 “The focus on family drama grounds Wolf Man in the classic Universal tradition. Most of the great Universal Monsters were tragic heroes, romantic figures who lamented the way their otherness separated them from society. ” – Den of Geek Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Day of the Fight (2023) 85% “When Mike fights, it's not a man to man battle. It's a struggle of people trying to support and forgive one another, despite sometimes disastrous mistakes. It’s a fight for grace, something so rarely found inside the boxing ring.” – Den of Geek Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Lead and Copper (2023) 100% B+ “Hart employs several on-screen graphics to help clarify the crisis, including a sleek line-art map of the United States and animation illustrating the passage of time ... [which] underscore the complicated nature of the problem. ” – The Progressive Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% A “Nickel Boys provides no comfort through witnessing. In doing so, it demands that our witnessing turn to action—a recognition that the problems of the past demand a just response today.” – The Progressive Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% 2/5 “It wants to explore the ethical problems of fandom and the pressure on regular people to be larger than life... but Smile 2 has the exact opposite effect, leaving the viewer with no choice but to take pleasure in seeing bad things happen.” – Den of Geek Oct 16, 2024 Full Review Salem's Lot (2024) 46% 3/5 “Dauberman understands the mood and tone of King’s work. But by keeping it set in the past, the director undermines the full power of even his well-honed scares.” – Den of Geek Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% 7/10 “Deadpool & Wolverine knows exactly what it is... It doesn’t try to please any naysayers. Instead, Deadpool & Wolverine has too much fun mocking, and celebrating, superhero movie history to worry about winning any one over. ” – Wealth of Geeks Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) 83% 4/5 “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget ... feels like a referendum on children's animation, a call for well-crafted kids' movies built on compelling characters, smart themes, and actual jokes instead of cynical, synergistic products.” – Wealth of Geeks Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Merry Little Batman (2023) 97% 7/10 “With its vibrant imagination and playful take on the superhero mythos, Merry Little Batman gives every kid just what they wanted for Christmas: a rollicking superhero story about a parent learning to trust their kid.” – Wealth of Geeks Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022) 72% 3.5/5 “As much as the Childs insist their lives are blessed by God's favor, pointing to their giant house and luxury clothes, Honk for Jesus constantly shows their suffering. ” – Sojourners Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% 4.5/5 “By placing the credits at the start of the film, Tár insists that oft-ignored people matter — even if Lydia pretends that they do not.” – Sojourners Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% 4.5/5 “With its over-saturated pastel desert landscapes and impeccably blocked compositions, Asteroid City foregrounds inauthenticity.” – Sojourners Jul 20, 2024 Full Review A Haunting in Venice (2023) 75% 3/5 “[W]hen Branagh plays up the despair lurking inside Poirot, A Haunting in Venice illustrates the battle between doubt and faith” – Sojourners Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Perfect Days (2023) 96% 5/5 “Unlike most modern cinema, the theme of Perfect Days isn’t delivered via conflict.” – Sojourners Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988) 4/5 “[B]y asking the question posed in the title of their Academy Award-nominated film, directors Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña move beyond the actions and motivations of a few men and explore the conditions that led to Chin’s murder.” – The Progressive Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Nope (2022) 83% 4/5 “With unflinching dexterity, Peele and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema juxtapose the terror of encountering a being from beyond with one of the most claustrophobic scenes ever caught on film.” – The Progressive Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Clerks III (2022) 63% 2/5 “The economic anxiety that drove the first movie and remained present in the second is completely absent in the third, and not just because Dante and Randal have become their own bosses.” – The Progressive Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Decision to Leave (2022) 94% 4/5 “While this mingling of crime and romance plots reveals the stern policeman to be a fundamentally fallible person, it also underscores the problems inherent in police work. ” – The Progressive Jul 20, 2024 Full Review
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