Category: Superheroes
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day: A Reboot and a Homecoming for the MCU’s Finest
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Destin Daniel Cretton As Morgan and I got seated in the theater tonight (albeit way too early—I figured there’d be lines out the wazoo for concessions, so we got to the theater 20 minutes before our showtime only to find zero line), I realized that I’d only ever seen four MCU movies in the theater before tonight. Those were the first Avengers, Spider-Man:…
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Supergirl: Lost in Translation Without Gunn
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Supergirl (2026) Craig Gillespie I’ve had quite the superhero renaissance over the last few years, and it all started with James Gunn’s Superman. I saw that poster and trailer and immediately felt hope for the genre again. I felt many of the same feelings about Supergirl—my excitement most manifested in me reading the comic that this movie was allegedly based on—but those feelings waned as everyone on the…
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps: Super Style, Substance, and Score!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Matt Shakman While I am growing a bit tired of having to drive an hour to the IMAX theater in Dallas on a traffic-laden Thursday night, I’m only becoming more enamored with my IMAX experiences, namely because we keep picking absolute bangers to go see. This includes The Fantastic Four: First Steps—one of two 2025 superhero movies whose trailers all those…
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Superman (2025): A Hopeful, Heroic Return to Form
Superman (2025) James Gunn Rarely do I anticipate a movie’s release so excitedly or for so long as I have James Gunn’s Superman. In these seven months since the first trailer that I’ve been waiting, I have shockingly rekindled a love for superhero movies that has seemingly hit its climax tonight, in glorious IMAX, which I don’t think I’ve experienced since our elementary school field trip to the downtown IMAX theater. Superman had…
