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The forgotten middle child of Phase One. Edward Norton plays Bruce Banner as a wired fugitive hiding out in Brazil, learning to control his pulse rate while searching for a cure, and the performance is more interesting than the movie…
The one that started the whole machine still plays better than most of what followed it. Robert Downey Jr. walks into Tony Stark with a standup comic’s timing and a memoir’s worth of damage, and the franchise was cast in…
The summer’s most expensive lesson in box office physics: a good lead cannot rescue a story built from spare parts. Supergirl sends Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) on a revenge road trip across the galaxy with a girl named Ruthye (Eve…
James Gunn took over DC Studios and his first film spends no time on an origin: Superman already flies, the world already watches him, and the story is about whether trust can survive a century of collateral damage. David Corenswet…
The original Joker grossed a billion dollars by daring audiences to take a comic book villain seriously. The sequel dares them to stop. Folie à Deux finds Arthur Fleck deteriorating in Arkham, represented by a lawyer pleading split personality, and…
The long run of linked DC films ended not with a climax but with a shrug in a wet cloak. Shot years earlier, rewritten endlessly, and finally dropped into theaters with minimal fuss, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom picks up…
The final hero entry of the previous DC regime arrived with almost no marketing and turned out warmer than most of what came before it. Xolo Maridueña’s Jaime Reyes is a college graduate who comes home to find his family…
A movie about rewriting timelines that was itself rewritten a hundred ways behind the scenes, and every rewrite shows on screen. Ezra Miller plays two versions of Barry Allen, and whatever you make of the actor’s well documented legal troubles,…
The sequel nobody was demanding arrived four years after the original, into a universe its own studio had already announced was dead, and it plays like a cast reunion for a show that got cancelled. Zachary Levi is back grinning…
Dwayne Johnson spent roughly a decade promising that the hierarchy of power in the DC universe would change, then delivered a movie where nothing changes at all. Black Adam is a museum of Johnson brand management: he floats, he glowers,…