Lanterns
Lanterns is the most interesting thing DC has done on television in years, and also the hardest to score.…...
WOKE: 2.15
TRAD: 7.54
AUTH: 64%
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Ten years into the MCU's run, Captain America: The Winter Soldier still holds up as the franchise's best individual film. It knows what it is: a 1970s political thriller wearing a superhero costume.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 25.62
AUTH: 70%
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2
Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again premiered March 24, 2026 on Disney+ and is being released weekly through May 5. What follows is a review based on episodes 1 through 5, which constitute the majority of the season. Spoilers follow....
WOKE: 25.9
TRAD: 14.28
AUTH: 55%
The Avengers
The Avengers arrived in 2012 as the culmination of a four-year Marvel experiment: could you build a cinematic universe, seed individual characters across separate films, and then bring them together for a shared story without everything collapsing? T…...
WOKE: 3.5
TRAD: 13.65
AUTH: 85%
Wonder Woman
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.…...
WOKE: 4.8
TRAD: 13.3
AUTH: 78%
Wonder Woman 1984
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.…...
WOKE: 18.18
TRAD: 16.3
AUTH: 78%
Blue Beetle
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.…...
WOKE: 15.08
TRAD: 8.75
AUTH: 80%
Avengers: Doomsday
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.…...
WOKE: 4.6
TRAD: 18.4
AUTH: 82%
Thunderbolts*
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.…...
WOKE: 11.08
TRAD: 12.94
AUTH: 82%
Black Adam
Black Adam is a movie that has everything it needs to be a great comic book film and makes almost none of it work....
WOKE: 7.68
TRAD: 13.02
AUTH: 80%
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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.…...
WOKE: 12.59
TRAD: 10.64
AUTH: 46%
The Flash
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.…...
WOKE: 9.8
TRAD: 11.48
AUTH: 72%
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
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.…...
WOKE: 5.9
TRAD: 17.5
AUTH: 80%
Doctor Strange
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.…...
WOKE: 5.35
TRAD: 14
AUTH: N/A
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel is the MCU's most deliberately ideological film, and the filmmakers would not dispute this.…...
WOKE: 19.44
TRAD: 3.25
AUTH: N/A
Avengers: Infinity War
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.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 16.8
AUTH: N/A
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight is not just the best superhero film ever made. It is one of the best crime films ever made, full stop.…...
WOKE: 3.5
TRAD: 19.6
AUTH: N/A
Iron Man
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.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 14.35
AUTH: N/A
The Batman
Matt Reeves made the rare superhero film where you forget you are watching a superhero film....
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 22.05
AUTH: 43%
Kraven the Hunter
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.…...
WOKE: 5.4
TRAD: 11.2
AUTH: 54%
Madame Web
Madame Web is one of the most comprehensively terrible superhero films ever produced by a major studio.…...
WOKE: 8.98
TRAD: 9.15
AUTH: 38%
Venom: The Last Dance
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.…...
WOKE: 2.8
TRAD: 18.34
AUTH: 68%