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Superman Isn’t Trying to Be Political. We Just Have Real-Life Supervillains Now.

James Gunn’s delightfully earnest, goofy take on the Man of Steel doesn’t need to stretch for relevance.

Writer-director James Gunn puts Krypto front and center in his delightful new take on Superman, which opens with the hero (David Corenswet) crashing down in the Antarctic after losing a fight for the first time, then getting battered some more by his trusty pooch before being dragged home for help. Superman and his reporter alter ego, Clark Kent, played ably by Corenswet with assurance and frustrated naïveté, is both an intensely American farm boy from Kansas and an alien survivor from a far-off civilization that has since been destroyed, an outsize version of the dual identities most immigrants balance. Edi Gathegi is a deadpan scene-stealer as Mister Terrific, part of a corporate-sponsored trio of superheroes that includes a preening Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern Guy Gardner and a blasé Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl.

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