Cinematic weirdos are cool now, and it would be a shame to forget that one of the first of them was The Crimson Bolt the moment he exclaimed, "Shut up, crime!"

| Jan 4, 2024

Gunn’s manic presentation earns the otherwise tired scenario a much-needed edge to set his movie apart from its contemporaries.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2023

Insurmountable disaster [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2022

Liv Tyler serves up her best performance in years.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

In Super, the ingredients just don't mesh.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 16, 2019

This critic recommends this idiosyncratic film -- as long as you aren't too bothered by the sight of men getting the life beaten out of them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Super has confirmed that [Ellen Page] is indeed one of most talented young actors around.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2018

It's difficult to tell if director James Gunn really is trying to play for laughs, because so much of the one-liner humor is inconsistent.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2018

If I hadn't foolishly gone and saw Sucker Punch a couple weeks ago, this would be the worst film of the year.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Gunn's movie is an ingeniously nasty concoction that feeds the cult of superhero fandom back into itself.

| Jun 20, 2013

Great dark humor and enjoyable performances make this one a winner. Surprisingly, the animated sequences also work quite well.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 2, 2013

[Not] an easily digestible movie but this is ... the point - in a world where everything isn't as cut and dry as 'good versus evil', rationality is increasingly rare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2012

Super can be very affecting and emotionally disturbing, which might not suit everyone's tastes, but it's also an absorbing, bleak and sometimes funny deviation from the usual superhero fodder.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 29, 2012

I liked Super more than I did Defendor. . . .

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 29, 2011

Super is the sudden kick in the crotch this summer of square-jawed superheroes never knew it needed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2011

I will say this of Super: it commits to its premise far better than Kick-Ass; if you thought the latter was violent, you haven't seen Rainn Wilson cracking someone's head repeatedly on a rock. But at least Kick-Ass was fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2011

Super is a film infused with that impossibly compelling mix of deeply empathic insights, disturbingly-visualised violence and goodwill-rousing positive energy.

| Aug 30, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2011

Both [Super & Kick-Ass] feature ... crazy vigilantes ... but whereas Kick-Ass disguised its unsettling subtext beneath a hip and stylish surface, the scuzzy, low-budget Super forces the viewer to confront its disturbing side head on.

| Aug 2, 2011

Not simple knockabout fun ... and therein lies both the attraction and the challenge.

| Jul 17, 2011