Sentences with phrase «superhero cinema»

Black Panther is a refreshing answer to the increasingly stale world of superhero cinema.

Following section by way of section, film to film, expecting surprises and nonetheless being left with one of the easiest moments in superhero cinema.

In spite of the loss of novelty superhero cinema now provides.

Critics Consensus: Black Panther elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU's most absorbing stories — and introducing some of its most fully realized characters.

2017 was a landmark year for superhero cinema, with amazing films including The LEGO Batman Movie, Logan, Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Tom Holland has praised star Chadwick Boseman for his changing the shape of superhero cinema with Marvel's Black Panther.

A lot of us have things to do other than relentlessly internalize 10 years and some 2,200 minutes of Marvel superhero cinema — things like eating, sleeping, finishing Infinite Jest, worrying about the plastic island floating in the Pacific Ocean, knitting, catching up on Game of Thrones, trying to make sense of President Trump and Stormy Daniels, or making our own American Chopper meme.

Even so, «Black Panther» is a net victory because of Boseman, Jordan, a stellar Kendrick Lamar - produced soundtrack, and the project's historic dissemination of black voices and images through one of the most popular mediums of our time: big - budget superhero cinema.

«X-Men: Apocalypse» delivers another nail in the coffin for the godfather franchise of modern superhero cinema.

With the Marvel Cinematic Universe currently paving the way for mainstream superhero cinema, it stands to reason that audiences could use Deadpool 2 as a reminder that stakes, budget, and even heroic...

One of the writers of Deadpool, Paul Wernick of Zombieland, told Indiewire in February that he hoped superhero cinema wouldn't suddenly become clogged with R - rated films.

And with how far we've come in terms of superb superhero cinema over the last decade, the filmmakers behind Fantastic Four should have learned their lesson already.

She is an appealing and active heroine, an effortlessly strong female character who isn't transparently designed to invite gender studies attention or respond to the generally male - driven worlds of adolescent - oriented superhero cinema.

Given the saturation of superhero cinema at the moment, it's a little surprising to see another origin story on the screen, particularly when audiences are generally at least a little familiar with who the Fantastic Four are.

If you take the time period as 2003 - 2007, three of the superhero movies released are superhero cinema benchmarks that would still make a superhero movie all - star starting eleven: X2: X-Men United; Spider - Man 2; Batman Begins.

«Black Panther» is a stunning visual and cultural achievement that takes superhero cinema where it's never gone before by not being afraid to embrace its blackness.

Critic Consensus: Black Panther elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU's most absorbing stories — and introducing some of its most fully realized characters.

The raucous, raunchy Deadpool 2, which opens in wide release Friday, is a fitting sequel to the wry and self - referential original, a superhero film billed as a new frontier in superhero cinema that took the box office by storm in 2016.

2016 HAS already blessed fans of superhero cinema with two blockbusters.

Almost a pseudo Avengers film, this impending epic sees the beloved Civil War comic storyline adapted for the screen, another milestone / seminal moment for superhero cinema and its fans.

Yes, despite all the attention paid to the box - office domination of superhero cinema in recent years - six of the top 11 films in 2017 sprung from caped comic books, for instance - the Spandex set still can not quite get invited to the biggest dance.

The LEGO Batman Movie wasn't all that innovative in terms of superhero cinema, but it was set in a digitally derived LEGO universe.

I would argue every single one of these movies loses its nerve when it comes to truly exploring these thematic questions, but that they're even interested in asking those questions is a big step up from a lot of superhero cinema.

The consensus of Tomatometer reads, «Black Panther elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU's most absorbing stories — and introducing some of its most fully realized characters.»

A dream - sequence reunion between Erik and his slain father (Sterling K. Brown) might count as the most affecting moment in MCU history — if not all of superhero cinema — were it not for Killmonger's final lines: «Throw me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped off the slave ships,» he says, «because they knew death was better than bondage.»

For fans of superhero cinema, that's amazing news, given that on the strength of «Cop Car's» early buzz and his previous film «Clown,» Watts landed the coveted job directing the next Spider - Man movie, co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures.

The consensus says, «Black Panther elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU's most absorbing stories — and introducing some of its most fully realized characters.»

Guest Editorial by: James Murray If you're a fan of superhero cinema, or really movies in general, you've heard the news: 2017 will bring us yet another version of Spider - Man on the big screen, after the series directed by Sam Raimi and Marc Webb ran out of steam.

Ever since «X-Men» took advantage of digital effects technology to render eye beams and human - generated lightning bolts, the finest examples of superhero cinema have grabbed hold of this opportunity with both hands to deliver innovative and arresting experiences within an established but flexible formula.

For such a short film (in terms of superhero cinema), nearly the entire film continues at a sluggish pace before diving head - first into a finale that is rushed, but even worse, unearned.

Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud), Midnight Special has roots in the sort of golly - gee earnest filmmaking of Steven Spielberg's Amblin era — most notably Close Encounters of the Third Kind and ET — but it also owes a lot to the current trend of superhero cinema.

With the dust settling from the news that Ava DuVernay is directing a «New Gods» movie for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, Marvel Studios's release of the «Infinity War» trailer Friday morning is a stern reminder that until further notice, its characters are still the gods of superhero cinema.

2017 has been a landmark year for superhero cinema, with amazing films including Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming, The LEGO Batman Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Whereas the success of 2016's R - rated origin presented a delightful surprise for unfamiliar audiences deeply ingrained in the machinery of superhero cinema, Deadpool 2 recognizes that everyone is in on the joke now, and fearlessly lights a match over two - hours of explosively funny gags and one - liners.

Henry Bevan on the golden age of superhero cinema... Wonder Woman will save the DC Extended Universe.

But even if the screenplay — credited to Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts — is just a touch too familiar, it seems hardly fair to penalize a film so visually inventive, witty and filled with magnificent spectacle, just because it has come around at a saturation point in the superhero cinema industry.

The consensus reads, «Black Panther elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU's most absorbing stories — and introducing some of its most fully realized characters.»

And I speak as someone for whom disappointment with superhero cinema had become a sad fact of life, until I simply gave up on expecting anything at all.