2023 · sci-fi · adventure · action
The Marvels
Directed by Nia DaCosta1h 45m2023
When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe.
Our read: The Marvels (2023) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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