Is 'Thunderbolts' Marvel at its best?

Is 'Thunderbolts' Marvel at its best?

It's a Marvel movie, which comes with all you'd expect from the world's biggest superhero franchise. But it's also the best Marvel movie in years.

‘Thunderbolts*’ an impressive reset from Marvel

Most comics-derived superhero movies really wouldn’t be much of anything without buried rage, and what happens when it won’t stay buried. Their stories’ relentless emphasis on childhood trauma and the crippling psychological load carried by broken souls (heroes and villains both) — that’s the whole show. With its adorable little asterisk in the title, “Thunderbolts*” goes further than most Marvels in its focus on psychological torment, mental he…

Film: Thunderbolts* - from the director of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

In switching his overarching allegiance from Marvel to DC, James Gunn seemingly closed the door on his directorship of the Guardians of the Galaxy…

Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”

The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a skyscraper in Malaysia, we hear her complaining about being bored after taking out innumerable nameless armed guards and destroying countless secret facilities where villains are doing research. It’s as if the cinematic universe is asking itself what it can do that’s new with the superhero form…

It's the best Marvel film in years: with »Thunderbolts«, the blockbuster franchise returns to character strength, coolness and humor, although the anti-hero spectacle is actually about a serious topic.

The Marvel universe continues to grow: with «Thunderbolts*» this week, the US comicgant brings another superhero troupe to the cinema screen. Fans ask themselves what significance the ominous asterisk has in the title and what role the unconventional group will play in future films. It is only in the last minutes of the film that there is information about this. It is not the classic heroes, such as Spider-Man, Hulk or Captain America, who are i…