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Is Superman Taking Flight With Critics?
Early reviews think James Gunn’s reboot of the DC Universe is doggone good.
The director’s new take on Superman — which stars David Corenswet as the titular alien, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and a blond Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor — arrives in theaters on July 11 as the first installment of the DCU’s “Gods and Monsters” phase. In her review, Vulture’s Alison Willmore describes the prominence of Superman’s superpowered canine, Krypto, in the film as a way for Gunn to “emphasize how fallible his take on the Man of Steel is going to be as well as to signal how wonderfully dorky and earnest his movie is about to get.” Some did feel as though a little too much was stuffed into the plot that involves an assortment of metahuman foes, but critics largely agreed that the final product tapped into the entertainment and appeal of a classic comic book. “[James Gunn] may love this source material, but he approaches it with a mixture of sincerity and irreverence that makes his new movie feel like a window being thrown open to a sunny day after years of oppressively dour DC action.
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