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FOR OUR CONSIDERATION: "Iron Man 3", "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "The Great Gatsbty"

" Iron Man 3 is an ominously exciting, shoot-the-works comic-book spectacular. It keeps throwing things at you, but not with the random, busy franchise indifference that marked the hollow and grandiose Iron Man 2. Iron Man 3 is closer to a vision of the world teetering on the edge. (...) Robert Downey Jr.'s defining trait as an actor — the way he tosses off each line with speedy, nattering insouciance, as though he were talking to himself, which he basically is (...)  Goaded by the press, Stark invites the Mandarin to come at him, and come at Stark he does — with rocket launchers that destroy Stark's home in the first of many darkly bedazzling action sequences, all edited with a detonating precision that renders the violence that much more voluptuously threatening. (...)   a climax that's a flat-out epic piece of action-fantasy engineering. I can't say I was moved by Iron Man 3, but I was transported. " by  Owen Gleiberman in   Entertainment Weekly...