Supergirl (2026)
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…
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Superman (2025)
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…
Joker: Folie à Deux
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…
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
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…
Blue Beetle
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…
The Flash (2023)
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,…
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
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…
Black Adam
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,…
The Batman
Three hours of noir rain, and it earns most of them. Matt Reeves treats Batman as a detective story first, and Robert Pattinson plays Bruce Wayne as a recluse two years into a nightly vengeance habit, eyeliner and all, narrating…
The Suicide Squad
James Gunn got handed the keys and made exactly the movie only he could make: a hard R bloodbath that is somehow also the most emotionally generous film in the whole DC line. The Suicide Squad soft reboots the 2016…