Unlike the more recent superhero movies that are lengthy and burdened by questions about origin and identity, The Marvels is a breezy entertainer that does not doesn’t take itself too seriously...

| Jun 24, 2024

Brie Larson leads a super-trio that works hard to blast some fun into this confusing adventure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2023

While the titular Marvels make for an endearing, women-centric found family, the film’s hyperawareness of its role in a larger universe is its downfall.

| Nov 17, 2023

It’s silly and makes little sense, but it’s such a fun time at the movies. And isn’t that why we go to see movies in the first place?

| Nov 15, 2023

DaCosta made room for The Marvels to be bright and playful, filled with characters that are impossible not to love.

| Nov 13, 2023

You get the sense that everyone involved is going through the motions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2023

The Marvels is a vibrant and well paced film that's packed with extremely well photographed and choreographed action. It's also brimming with cast chemistry, and rocks a narrative that builds the team *and* the characters as individuals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2023

Pleasurably lightweight, its story unburdened by the off-screen drama of the studio that made it. The shortest film in the MCU at a runtime of 105 minutes, this sprightly sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel operates like a breezy road-trip comedy.

| Nov 10, 2023

This wobbly addition to the overall saga does not pass muster as either a sequel to the 2019 Captain Marvel solo outing or a sum-of-its-parts team-up.

| Nov 10, 2023

What “The Marvels” has going for it, apart from a 105-minute running time... is the energizing presence of Canada’s Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim superhero. She’s almost enough to save a movie that ultimately is beyond redemption.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 10, 2023

The good stuff in The Marvels has been hacked and slashed within an inch of its life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2023

The Marvels maintains its structure and doesn’t try to function as a springboard to the next Marvel movie or television show. The Marvels gets the space to let the characters just be themselves and for us to better understand what makes them heroes.

| Nov 10, 2023

It's unfair how much this movie leans on the genuinely joyous Iman Vellani to liven up the incomprehensible mess created by corporate filmmaking and multiverse-wide IP-fracking.

| Nov 10, 2023

Star Brie Larson seems pretty checked out here — almost as checked out as the jokers who came up with the idea of once again tapping the Beastie Boys for the soundtrack. “Hey, they’re on a spaceship! Let’s use ‘Intergalactic!’”

| Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 10, 2023

Poised between goofy and godawful and plagued by rewrites and reshoots, this 33rd entry in the Marvel cinematic universe is in serious disrepair. The MCU, once the spawner of glories, is stuck in a rut. The time for a rethink is now.

| Nov 10, 2023

In a universe where the movies last well over three hours, the 105 minute runtime of “The Marvels” is as welcome as it is surprising.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2023

DaCosta delivers a family-friendly interplanetary frolic (complete with an impromptu Gilbert and Sullivan-like musical sojourn) filled to the brim with colorful visuals, strong special effects, character-driven humor, and exciting action sequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2023

A large portion of The Marvels feels designed to troll the fanboys, and god bless DaCosta for that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2023

The superhero is as bored as we are, but the Marvel machine grinds on.

| Nov 10, 2023

The Marvels feels safely bland at a time when Marvel needs to take some chances. Because despite featuring a space-faring hero who can majestically streak into the stars, those heroics come in a movie that only intermittently gets off the ground.

| Nov 10, 2023