2025 · action · sci-fi · adventure
Thunderbolts*
Directed by Jake Schreier2h 7m2025
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Our read: Thunderbolts* (2025) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- tender
- epic-stakes
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“You want messy MCU misfits grappling with trauma between set pieces.”
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