The Lightest, Fizziest Marvel Movie in Years
The Marvels is pleasurably lightweight, its story unburdened by the off-screen drama of the studio that made it.
arrives at , the company that ushered in more than a decade of spandex-clad blockbusters. Because the () SAG-AFTRA strike prohibited its actors from participating in promotional activities, the film is being released with little fanfare and is than most of its comic-book predecessors. Plus, as the 33rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with characters pulled from both big- and small-screen projects, it’s been positioned as proof of Marvel’s overreach. It’s all in the title, really: The “Marvels” refers to the trio of superheroes with related powers at the story’s center, but
