‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Review: Anthony Mackie Takes Up the Shield in a Franchise Time Filler That’s Just Fun Enough
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Captain America: Brave New World” is the first Marvel movie in six months — but more than that, it’s the first since 2022, the year of “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” to build itself around a superhero you’d categorize as Marvel Classic.
Those three years define an era when many began to wonder if comic-book-movie culture — or, at least, the thrill of it — was over.
Last summer, the massive box-office success of “Deadpool & Wolverine” ($636 million domestic) might seem to have laid that question to rest.
Yet with the Marvel Cinematic Universe encompassing 35 films, there is now a daunting repetition built into it. The issue of potential superhero fatigue hovers over a new “Captain America” film far more than it did before.
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