The first movie after what’s being called “The Blip” is appropriately lighthearted. Marvel’s Spider-Man films have a teenage innocence to them — at least at the start — that recontextualizes the Marvel Cinematic Universe as one that has suffered but is now whole again. However, it’s...
and Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o), and introduces characters we will surely see again, like Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne). All of this ultimately weaves nicely into a story that this mini-franchise (and everyone involved with making it) likely needed in order to move ...
The most obvious way thatWakanda Foreverleads into Phase Five of the MCU is through its introduction of Riri Williams, the brilliant teen inventor who eventually becomes the armored hero known as Ironheart. The character, played by Dominique Thorne, will soon appear in her own Disney+ series. ...
Brave New Worldis unfortunately not a top-tier Marvel movie. The actors are mostly trying, but the lasting value of this film will ultimately be some mild entertainment and continuing to hopefully set up a future in the series that's as strong as the runup toAvengers: Infinity Warand...