Despite its absurd romantic storyline, and creepy crawlers, Ant-Man is a superhero film worth seeing. I don't think I've laughed so hard in any other Marvel film.

| Apr 12, 2017

Ant-Man is a surprisingly nimble, enjoyable origin story with a little-guy-saves-the-day quality that will particularly appeal to younger viewers.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2016

Is Ant-Man worth seeing? (As if my answer matters; like all Marvel movies, it'll make a mint.) Sort of.

| May 27, 2016

Ant-Man has its charms, but they're frequently lost beneath a story that feels like a patchwork job. It's a fun watch, but also a frustrating one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2015

No other Marvel installment has felt as weighed down by its obligations to the franchise.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2015

[Ants are] pests, and that's just a weird place to start for a superhero, especially if he never strays too far from his origins.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2015

At long last Marvel Studios offers up a superhero smaller than its artistic ambitions.

| Jul 23, 2015

The overwhelming, self-serious sense that we are watching something Very Important blissfully doesn't exist in Ant-Man. It's just plain fun: light, breezy, simple and enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2015

What, if anything, holds "Ant-Man" together? First, Paul Rudd, who is laughably unheroic, and has the grace to know as much ...

| Jul 20, 2015

Not so f-ant-astic, then, just a little ant-iclimatic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2015

The film is transcendental-meditation low-key and just too damned nice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2015

It's difficult to shake the sense that the film was assembled hurriedly and somewhat haphazardly. Which, from all available evidence, is exactly what happened.

| Jul 18, 2015

This is the sort of movie where you see the effort and say, Thank god.

| Jul 17, 2015

Ranks, on every front, as one of the best from Marvel's universe!

Full Review | Jul 17, 2015

In its medium-stupid and mismanaged fashion it's not so awful.

| Jul 17, 2015

Ant-Man just isn't that great an idea and the film exists only because the Marvel machine is working so remorselessly through its massive back catalogue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2015

The film isn't terrible but it makes earlier Marvel outings look like masterpieces. There's hardly a trope in it you haven't seen before, and done with far greater flair. It feels like making a mountain out of an anthill.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2015

I enjoyed "Ant-Man" most as small-scale spectacle, a high-tech update on "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" cinema...The plot, it must be said, rewards not thinking about it.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 17, 2015

The cast is better than solid. Directed by Peyton Reed, the action is a zippy pleasure. The more Scott shrinks, the bigger the fun. The visual effects are witty, especially when he begins making allies of various ant colonies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 17, 2015

It might take another Ant-Man movie (you know it's in the works) to see his character grow once the suit's luster has worn down, but the framework is there to create an interesting superhero.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2015