The chemistry between Larson and Lynch propels the last half of the movie; Lynch brings depth, love, and believability to Maria.

| Mar 12, 2021

"Captain Marvel" has things going for it that elevate it a bit above the pack and provide more cultural oomph and import, but despite that, this is also a Marvel movie that feels like another Marvel movie.

| Original Score: B | Jun 30, 2020

I like this character and I like this movie. Bri [Larson] is a square-jawed badass.

| Sep 20, 2019

Lacking a unifying vision and a charismatic star performance, this film is less a big-screen comic than a patchwork quilt.

| Mar 21, 2019

Captain Marvel is a film you should be proud to let your children watch. It will inspire them to understand there should be no limits on what women can achieve

| Mar 13, 2019

A hugely enjoyable, funny and masterfully put together offering from Marvel and Disney.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2019

The problem is with the corporate anticulture that controls these productions-and the fandom-targeted demagogy that they're made to fulfill-which responsible casting can't overcome alone.

| Mar 12, 2019

I thought it was perfectly fine.

| Mar 11, 2019

Given the unholy mess of Carol's continuity, the film's multi-authored script makes a fair fist of delivering fragments of backstory as recovered memory.

| Mar 11, 2019

Lacking the wit and graphic oomph that sometimes rescues the Marvel franchise from terminal fatigue, "Captain Marvel" is yet another origin story for yet another superhero.

| Mar 11, 2019

The main strength is a core of female friendship: Carol Danvers is the only Marvel hero you could imagine getting hammered and belting out songs by No Doubt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2019

For Marvel there's a new boss in town.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2019

As a parent, I wish a film like this had been made when my daughter was young. In Captain Marvel, Brie Larson plays a woman who comes to learn that the most important power she possesses has been inside her all along

| Mar 9, 2019

A slow start, but once the movie got going, it left me breathless.

| Mar 9, 2019

It feels like a stepping-stone movie, not the powerful one we hoped for.

| Original Score: C | Mar 9, 2019

The efforts to mix massive action scenes with down-to-Earth humor is less of the smooth transition it needs to be to work and more of a jarring trek.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2019

Captain Marvel succeeds not only as an introduction to a new Marvel hero but as a time at the movies that is consistently interested in what it feels like to be a girl and a woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2019

It will be interesting to see, now that this origin story is done and dusted, what Captain Marvel does next.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2019

A perfectly fine Marvel installment that I can't fathom deeply loving or hating, although I'm sure many viewers will manage to do both.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 8, 2019

The film may be about women breaking their shackles, but the lead actress feels kept in check for much of the picture. Humor winds up being provided by Samuel Jackson's Nick Fury, heart by Lashana Lynch's Maria Rambeau, and pathos by...well, it ain't Larson

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 8, 2019