2019 · action · superhero · adventure
Captain Marvel (2019)
Directed by Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden2h 4m2019
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Our read: Captain Marvel (2019) (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · superhero · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / superhero, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
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