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Sam Raimi

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Oz the Unfortunate and Underwhelming?

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Oz the Unfortunate and Underwhelming?

In which Steven Greydanus talks me out of spending money on Sam Raimi's Oz movie. "It’s not awful. It’s misguided and uninspired, but competent and watchable..."

Spider-man 3 (2007)

Spider-man 3 (2007)

Here's a flashback to my review of Sam Raimi's Spider-man 3, which I liked better than a lot of moviegoers, even though it was, yes, something of a letdown. This review was originally published at Christianity Today in May 2007. "You are such a nerd,

Spider-man 2 (2004)

Here's a 2012 flashback to my original review of Spider-man 2, with a few small repairs and a couple of revisions for the sake of clarification. Lately, I've been lamenting the overabundance of superhero movies, their predictability, their over-seriousness, their revelry in excessive action and their

Spider-man (2002)

As the aptly named Mark Webb's reboot of the web-slinger franchise opens to record-breaking box office and ho-hum reviews, I thought I'd look back at my initial reactions to Sam Raimi's series.The more I think about Raimi's first Spider-man movie, which