Tag: Marvel

Thor returns in another direct comedy, Love and Thunder, but it's another listless and hollow superhero effort from Marvel.

Multiverse of Madness' endless array of magic spells, action, and chaos is ceaseless to a point of boredom, even as the eccentric Sam Raimi touches peer through.

Fan service won't sustain Spider-Man: No Way Home long term, but it's an emotionally powerful and nuanced take on being a superhero that will last.

Eternals is a mature, surprisingly rich tale of creation and humanism, but ponderously slow as it doles out exposition to set up Marvel's theological grounding.

While Shang-Chi oftentimes feels more like a soulless mimic of Hong Kong cinema, the culture mix results in something distinctive.

A routine espionage thriller reveals its theme too late, leaving Black Widow without much purpose in the wider Marvel story arc, even if the action is impressive in spots.

Infamous, messy, and tonally bizarre, Howard the Duck's greatest lesson is in treating the source material with respect.

Unusually bland and hollow in its first half, Black Widow finds substance by the end but by then, it's already lost its way and purpose.

Boh Bringing a story of self-doubt and identity to Marvel’s storyline, the second stand-alone Spider-Man has a lot of fun (too much arguably) selling action in droves, with the …

Ironing Out the Future Iron Man released in May of 2008. Lehman Brothers collapsed in September of that year. Lucky then for Marvel (and then Paramount), whose story of …

Assembled Over the past decade, Marvel brought audiences toward this melee, beginning in Iron Man’s militaristic fantasy before turning into a wild, uncontrolled spectacle of comic book fiction. Avengers: …

Hulking Mad Control. Everything in the Ang Lee-directed Hulk concerns control. Emotional control. Government control. A parent’s control. Memory control. It’s an interesting take on the comic book hero, …