Supergirl (2026)

Our Review

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 Ridley), hunting the warlord who slaughtered the child’s village, and the framing is closer to a grimy space western than a shiny cape release. There is no city to save here, just a list of names and a swinging blade.

The good news is that Alcock is the real deal. She plays Kara with prickly, hungover attitude and zero sentiment, a traumatized wanderer who drinks, snaps, and slowly learns to care about somebody other than herself, and the DCU has a franchise anchor if it wants one. Eve Ridley’s Ruthye grounds the carnage in a child’s grief, Jason Momoa’s Lobo is a swaggering bounty hunter riot, and the picture gets real mileage out of letting its heroes be unlikable for long stretches.

The bad news is everything around them. Matthias Schoenaerts’s Krem is a void, a villain with no plan and no personality, the second act spins in circles before remembering the plot, and the needle drop brawls feel borrowed from better movies. It opened to a soft $38 million against a reported nine figure budget and lost a fortune, and the answer is right on the screen: a magnetic star in search of a story. Our score: 5/10. Come for Alcock, mourn the movie she deserved.