33.) X-Men: Apocalypse [5/27/2016 - 3D]

The previews for this film have been running for so long, I honestly thought I might have seen it already. When I did see it, I found myself missing the more coherent trailer. There have been few movies which so profoundly misunderstand the characters and the team at the core of the film. The only really enjoyable action sequence featured the a brief appearance of Wolverine. Most of the movie involved people standing around with arms raised and inanimate objects flying around, for no good reason. Magneto was a bad guy until, for no reason, he wasn't. Mystique just walked around talking the whole time, working from a credibility she never validated. Quicksilver was funny, but served no purpose except to remind the viewer of the exact same scene he was in from the last movie. The movie was full of great mutants, and none of them amounted to anything, until Jean Grey, without any struggles whatsoever, went beast-mode on Apocalypse, before returning to normal. Psyloche was under-used, Nightcrawler played only a small part, and Jubilee might as well have been a piece of furniture. Things just seemed to happen until, without much reason, they stopped.

The theater was packed, and people applauded at the end. I wept for the X-Men.

32.) Captain America: Civil War [5/21/2016]

I had tempered excitement for this movie, considering how formulaic the previous Marvel films have been. That said, I really enjoyed this film. It was slick, the writing and story were fairly tightly written, and it strayed away from drawing rigid moral lines on either side of which the characters fell. No one was right, no one made good choices, and there was not an easy answer to the complicated question at the core of the film. The action scene we were great, Robert Downey Jr was amazing, and the new characters slotted nicely into the Universe. The new Spider-Man was, by far, the best Spider-Man to date. All in all, I am not cautiously optimistic for the next film. 

31.) Keanu [5/17/2016]

Work had gotten busy, and I missed a number of films that I wanted to see. One that I did not miss, one I made sure to make time for, was Keanu. This movie was, simply put, charming. The cat was adorable, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele were great, and there were a ton of very funny cameos (Anna Ferris was one of the best). In among the jokes, it raised questions of identity and racial politics. I was really happy have seen this movie, and it's worth a look.