Iron Man 2
The rushed sequel, and it wears the rush. Tony Stark outs himself as Iron Man, watches his blood poison him, drinks too much, fights a Congress hearing, and juggles a revenge plot, a rival arms dealer, a new assistant who…
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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…
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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…
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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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,…
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