Successfully channels everything that people like about Superman, at times, while other times feel like it's merely trying to ensure people remember that the character still exists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2023

The glossiness of the visuals and the faithfulness of the cast in mimicking their ’70s counterparts makes the film a fitting revisit to a meandering property.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 11, 2022

Superman Returns ... is not the worst of today's entertainments, but interest in it eventually collapses under the weight of the film's self-seriousness and overbearing special effects.

| Feb 14, 2021

Revisiting Bryan Singer's underrated SUPERMAN RETURNS, I propose why it is actually one of the best Superman movies of all time. Check out the video above and see if you agree!

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 26, 2020

The film is long. The pace is slow. The mood is solemn. But the action is edge-of-the-seat.

| Feb 28, 2020

It is beautifully shot. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

The biggest problem with Superman Returns is the script, which bogs down in the love story and forgets the action -- which should be the strong point.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 20, 2019

One blockbuster that actually delivers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Overall not a terrible watch but a little bit dry.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 13, 2019

The man doesn't have an ounce of charisma and at best can only be described as an expressionless log of wood. In retrospect, I'd settle for our own delectable Hrithik.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 15, 2019

Would have benefited greatly from Singer trusting his talent and assembling a Superman movie that attempted to soar beyond the heights previously achieved decades ago.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 12, 2013

For all the mountains of kryptonite ranged against him, you never fear for Superman or Lois Lane, never experience anything more intense than the fret of mild peril.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 12, 2010

Superman Returns is a great kick start to a potentially knockout new franchise, which ultimately leaves the audience, like the people of Metropolis when its greatest hero returns to the skies, brimming with hope.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2010

The movie runs nearly half an hour longer than it should, with a new plot strand introduced in the third act that has questionable vitality in the presumed sequel.

| Jul 6, 2010

One of this summer's best action movies.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 6, 2010

More stolid than awe-inspiring

| Aug 30, 2009

None of which would register if Routh weren't a Superman whom if we don't need we can at least feel for.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

Underneath its mechanical safety and mild-manners, this movie does have some heart and some muscle. You'll come to like having it around, even if you thought you'd already moved on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Superman Returns feels eager to please, and it frequently succeeds, but despite its best intentions, it seldom soars to the height of 1978's Superman: The Movie

| Jul 7, 2008

Superman Returns is a bombastic, rousing, explosive burst of summer fun and fantasy, enriched by its predecessors and rejuvenated by the new blood and slavish religious devotion of director Bryan Singer.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 28, 2008