{"id":154488,"date":"2021-07-10T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=154488"},"modified":"2021-07-12T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T00:27:30","slug":"movie-review-black-widow-2021-no-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/10\/movie-review-black-widow-2021-no-spoilers.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &#8220;Black Widow&#8221; (2021) [no spoilers]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Black Widow<\/em> is a fine action flick and a decent (if overdue) wrap-up and send-off for Natasha Romanoff. It doesn&#8217;t pay off some of the stuff it sets up, but it&#8217;s definitely in the upper half of MCU films.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/black-widow-2021\/\">Full review on Letterboxd (no spoilers)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3480822\/\">Black Widow (2021) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/1413756081923260419\">Source tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Black Widow poster\"  src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster-433x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-154537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster-433x650.jpg 433w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 85vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to an actual movie theater!  It was fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,525,41],"tags":[1986,723],"class_list":["post-154488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-blackwidow","tag-nt","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Black-Widow-poster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154503,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/11\/movie-trailers-before-black-widow.html","url_meta":{"origin":154488,"position":0},"title":"Movie trailers before &#8220;Black Widow&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Jul-21 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the theater again, with a look at what's coming up.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Commercials &amp; Branding&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Commercials &amp; Branding","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-commercial"},"img":{"alt_text":"Movie Trailers","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DWVhCLHWsAIR3W0.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27888,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/black-widow-eye-candy.html","url_meta":{"origin":154488,"position":1},"title":"Black Widow &#8212; eye candy?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-May-12 9:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure what movie some of these critics saw, but I know what movie they didn't see. 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