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"Age of heroes"
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In a year without Marvel movies,
The Old Guard
redefined the superhero blockbuster
By Tom Breihan
December 2, 2020 | 6:00am
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Endgame
is cinema, a thrill ride, and the fitting culmination of Marvel’s grand experiment
By Tom Breihan
December 4, 2019 | 12:00pm
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From its complex villain to its amazing fictional world,
Black Panther
took the superhero movie higher
By Tom Breihan
April 5, 2019 | 11:00am
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Wonder Woman
crashed the boys’
club of superhero cinema, saving the DCEU in the process
By Tom Breihan
March 22, 2019 | 11:00am
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After three super fiascos,
Deadpool
finally made a superstar out of Ryan Reynolds
By Tom Breihan
March 8, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Briefly but blissfully,
Age Of Ultron
plays like an Avengers hangout movie
By Tom Breihan
February 22, 2019 | 12:00pm
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With
Guardians Of The Galaxy
, Marvel made household names out of interstellar second-stringers
By Tom Breihan
February 8, 2019 | 12:00pm
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For better or worse,
Man Of Steel
is the exact Superman movie Zack Snyder wanted to make
By Tom Breihan
January 25, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Years before the Infinity War, the Avengers assembled for Marvel’
s first crossover blockbuster blast
By Tom Breihan
January 11, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Marvel somehow got Captain America and his adventure-serial origin story just right
By Tom Breihan
December 14, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Scott Pilgrim is more zero than superhero, but his movie is still a zippy comic-to-screen delight
By Tom Breihan
November 30, 2018 | 12:00pm
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The
Watchmen
movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point
By Tom Breihan
November 16, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Does the most important year for superhero movies belong to
The Dark Knight
or
Iron Man
?
By Tom Breihan
November 2, 2018 | 11:00am
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Venom
may be bad, but at least it didn’
t cast Topher Grace in the title role
By Tom Breihan
October 19, 2018 | 11:00am
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Superman returns, but he forgot to bring the action and the fun back with him
By Tom Breihan
October 5, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Incredibles
didn't need comic-book source material (or origin stories) to do superheroes right
By Tom Breihan
September 7, 2018 | 11:00am
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Hulk
didn’
t smash
By Tom Breihan
August 24, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Sam Raimi’
s bright, fun
Spider-Man
doubled as a valentine to a post-9/11 New York
By Tom Breihan
August 10, 2018 | 11:00am
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How did a great Alan Moore comic become a lousy Johnny Depp mystery?
By Tom Breihan
July 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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The modern era of the superhero movie begins in earnest with
X-Men
By Tom Breihan
July 13, 2018 | 11:00am
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Mystery Men
clumsily spoofed superhero movies before the genre even really took flight
By Tom Breihan
June 29, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Blade
paved the way for the Marvel blockbusters of the new millennium
By Tom Breihan
June 15, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Phantom
paid
tongue-in-cheek homage to old-timey do-gooders but never got its due
By Tom Breihan
May 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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Tragically and fashionably,
The Crow
turned superhero cinema into a death dance
By Tom Breihan
April 20, 2018 | 11:00am
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25 years before
Black Panther
, a box-office bomb broke ground for black superheroes
By Tom Breihan
April 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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