20 reviews in this category.
There is a moment in Wonder Woman where Diana strides into No Man's Land, deflecting bullets with her bracers while Allied soldiers watch in disbelief, and charges toward the German lines alone.…...
Blue Beetle is the most politically opinionated DC film since Zack Snyder left the franchise, and it is probably the most fun one since Shazam.…...
Wonder Woman 1984 had the hardest job in superhero cinema: follow up one of the genre's most beloved entries while navigating a global pandemic release. It did not pull it off.…...
This is the review nobody else is writing yet. Avengers: Doomsday does not release until December 18, 2026. The trailers are out. The cast list is longer than a CVS receipt. Robert Downey Jr. is back, not as Tony Stark but as Doctor Doom.…...
Thunderbolts* is the best Marvel film in several years, and the asterisk tells you something about what kind of film it wants to be. The studio insists the punctuation mark carries meaning. It does.…...
Black Adam is a movie that has everything it needs to be a great comic book film and makes almost none of it work....
Across the Spider-Verse is the most technically ambitious animated film ever made. That is not hyperbole. Director Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K.…...
Doctor Strange is the MCU's most spiritually interesting film, and that is saying something given the franchise's general allergy to anything resembling genuine metaphysics.…...
Avengers: Infinity War is the best argument that the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever made for its own existence. Ten years of narrative groundwork paid off in a film that is, almost in spite of itself, genuinely tragic. The heroes lose.…...
Captain Marvel is the MCU's most deliberately ideological film, and the filmmakers would not dispute this.…...
Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a film critics abandoned and audiences found charming. The 50% critic score tells you about industry politics and franchise fatigue.…...
The Flash is a film that should not exist, barely does exist, and yet contains some of the best superhero filmmaking of 2023 embedded inside the most troubled production in DC history.…...
Iron Man is the movie that started it all. Not just the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though that is the historical fact. It started the era of the franchise superhero film as the dominant mode of big-budget Hollywood storytelling.…...
The Dark Knight is not just the best superhero film ever made. It is one of the best crime films ever made, full stop.…...
Matt Reeves made the rare superhero film where you forget you are watching a superhero film....
Kraven the Hunter had a simple job: make a cool vigilante film about a man who uses superhuman hunting skills to kill criminals instead of animals. It mostly fails at this simple job.…...
Madame Web is one of the most comprehensively terrible superhero films ever produced by a major studio.…...
Marvel needed a win, and they mostly got one....
This franchise was never supposed to work. A Venom movie without Spider-Man, built around Tom Hardy doing a two-man improv show with a CGI alien living in his chest. It worked twice already.…...
Captain America: Brave New World is a Frankenstein's monster of a movie, stitched together from at least three different scripts, multiple rounds of reshoots, and the remnants of a 2008 plotline nobody was asking to resolve.…...
