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Every (Live-Action) Superman Movie, Ranked


David Corenswet gives easily the best Kal-El performance since Christopher Reeve. But how does James Gunn’s new film stack up?

The opening stretch of this four-hour serial is very promising: a corny but competent episodic exploration of Kal-el coming to Earth, growing up with sweet country parents, and fighting crime and reporting stories alongside a snappy, ambitious Lois Lane (Noel Neill) in the most Los Angeles–looking Metropolis ever committed to film. The Daily Planet team (played by Kate Bosworth, Frank Langella, Sam Huntington, and James Marsden) get plenty of opportunities to inflect the hot-tempered newsroom with a sense of real melancholy in the wake of Superman’s prodigal return to the city he fled to seek out his people in the depths of space. It was eviscerated when it dropped in March 2016, but nearly a decade on from Zack Snyder’s dour, nightmarish take on a world driven to paranoid mania over the arrival of Superman, it stands out as film unique in style and theme in a saturated superhero market.

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