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By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2021 -
Movie Review
Chloe Zhao, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Marvel Comics, Richard Madden, sci-fi
Kumail Nanjiani stars in a scene from the movie "Eternals." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Marvel Studios)
By Catholic News Service Director and co-writer Chloé Zhao’s big but empty Marvel Comics adaptation follows an ensemble of alien superheroes (most prominently Gemma Chan and Richard Madden) dispatched to Earth by a higher power (voice of David Kaye) thousands of years ago to protect humans from marauding monsters. After discovering in the present day […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 1, 2021 -
Movie Review
Andy Serkis, Marvel Comics, Naomie Harris, Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson
This is a scene from the movie "Venom: Let There Be Carnage." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service The sequel to 2018’s “Venom,” directed by Andy Serkis, is two films in one: a raucous buddy comedy about an investigative journalist (Tom Hardy) and the eponymous alien lizard learning to coexist, and a loud and violent action thriller with multiple villains, all worthy of the Marvel comic source material. An […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 2, 2020 -
Movie Review
Marvel Comics, X-Men
Maisie Williams, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt, Charlie Heaton and Anya Taylor-Joy star in a scene from the 2020 film "The New Mutants." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service This 13th and officially final installment of the “X-Men” film series is an unsatisfying conclusion to the once-mighty franchise, a dreary, derivative and gratuitous horror thriller, based on a set of Marvel Comics, directed and co-written by Josh Boone. Five teenagers (Charlie Heaton, Blu Hunt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams and Henry […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 6, 2019 -
Movie Review
Marvel Comics, X-Men
Tye Sheridan, James McAvoy, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Alexandra Shipp star in a scene from the movie "Dark Phoenix." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service Marvel Comics-based sci-fi adventure, set mostly in 1992, in which a member (Sophie Turner) of the X-Men team of mutants comes close to dying during a mission to save the crew of the space shuttle but instead emerges from the experience endowed with cosmic powers she cannot control. As she goes […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 26, 2019 -
Movie Review
Ant Man, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Thor
Chris Hemsworth stars in a scene from the movie "Avengers: Endgame." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Primarily set five years after a cosmic villain (Josh Brolin) used a set of energy-endowed gems to wipe out half of all the living creatures in the universe, this sweeping Marvel Comics-based epic charts the efforts of the titular ensemble to harness time travel via Ant Man’s (Paul Rudd) quantum realm […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 5, 2019 -
Movie Review
Annette Bening, Ben Mendelsohn, Brie Larson, Captain Marvel, Marvel Comics, Samuel L. Jackson
Brie Larson stars in a scene from the movie "Captain Marvel." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Walt Disney Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Lavish origin story finds the superhero of the title (Brie Larson) faithfully serving the alien civilization that trained her as a warrior in its struggle against the encroachments of a race of shape-shifting enemies (led by Ben Mendelsohn). But when she joins her military mentor (Jude Law) on a mission to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
Marvel Comics, Michelle Williams, Tom Hardy
Reid Scott, Michelle Williams and Tom Hardy star in in a scene from the movie "Venom." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service While investigating an evil billionaire (Riz Ahmed) who has been secretly experimenting with fusing human beings and aliens into a composite life form, a reporter (Tom Hardy) accidentally undergoes the transformation, which endows him with superpowers but also leaves him unable, at times, to control his own actions. He gets help […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 16, 2018 -
Movie Review
Andy Serkis, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Freeman, Marvel Comics, Michael B. Jordan
Lupita Nyong'o and Chadwick Boseman star in a scene from the movie "Black Panther." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Walt Disney Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Sprawling, energetic but ultimately overlong Marvel Comics adaptation from director and co-writer Ryan Coogler. The young sovereign (Chadwick Boseman) of an imaginary — and secret — African kingdom where the use of a super-powerful mineral has enabled the population to achieve both prosperity and a range of technological wonders unknown to […]
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