Man of Steel is a genre story without the cartoon-like elements seen in past superhero films, presenting a gritty, torment-ridden reboot of the character’s origin story with intense emotional genuineness.

| Jul 28, 2024

While it might set itself apart from many superhero movies that came before it, it seems to do so arbitrarily as opposed to exploring those ideas in any organic way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Man of Steel was Snyder’s triumphant debut with Superman, and it’s still a thrilling example of why Clark Kent can be an engaging lead for one of these movies despite the speculation for the opposite.

| Jun 16, 2023

Man of Steel is fun and makes a lot of sense a lot of the time but is also dull and senseless some of the time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2023

You finish watching, hoping that better times might just be ahead ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2022

Snyder’s film is humorless and flavorless, unmemorable and underwhelming, epic-sized but far from grand.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022

It’s a movie that offers a unique vision laced with fun summer action while also showing a level of respect for the source material.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

If there is one word to describe Man of Steel, it would be a disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Here is the main problem: it is a solid movie, but a terrible Superman movie.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 18, 2021

Man of Steel gets a lot right. The casting of Henry Cavill as Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent is spot-on. He brings the right notes of heroism and earnestness to the role, as well as embodying the physical presence of the character.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2021

While Cavill never really gets a chance to make the film his own, the quality of the performances are enough to salvage the film's many shortcomings.

| Feb 23, 2021

A more sincere Clark Kent derivation.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2020

A reminder that it takes a whole lot more than muscle and strength to make a true superhero.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

Zack Snyder makes his film feel more human, more emotional and more heroic than any other Superman adaptation on the big screen. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 25, 2020

It may not have lived up to the hype, but Man of Steel is still the best modern Superman movie, and well worth checking out even if the screenplay delivers its fair share of disappointments. Still, this feels like a solid opening chapter from Zack Snyder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2020

In this quick fast episode, I go into a bit more on why I dislike the Man of Steel film

| Original Score: D | Jan 11, 2020

A pandering, monotonous mess that features an anachronistic character who may be best left a relic of the past.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Man of Steel is admittedly missing humor and fun, consumed by the seriousness of producer Christopher Nolan's dark overtones and grey color palate. But the tone was a course correction, and the payoff is great.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 27, 2019

It's curious how the abstraction of CGI carnage and the abstraction of plot verbiage seem to go hand in hand. But one thing missing from this resolutely earnest film is humour, which is odd when you consider it's based on a comic book.

| Aug 6, 2019

Arguably the most satisfying, complex, and entertaining feature film ever created featuring the superhero.

| Jul 30, 2019