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  Review by Lucy ★★★★★ 282

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  for the past 11 years we thought these various heroes were hot shit but all it took was carol danvers absolutely shattering the glass ceiling with her glowing fists to make the rest of the mcu look like kids in halloween costumes. and to find out that all along they’ve been following her lead without knowing it? that they wouldn’t even BE the avengers without her? the galaxy brain of it all. also she’s clearly a lesbian. because i said so

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  Review by Iman ★★ 195

  These stars are not for Brie Larson, I will sacrifice my own life…for Brie Larson

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  Review by BRAT 43

  i know nothing about marvel so here is a guest review from my frat kid brother home from college for spring break: “captain marvel was dope. brie larson was great. um, i dunno! it was good! i don’t know what to say. brie larson was really good. uh, yeah. i’d give it 3 1/2 stars and a rotten tomatoes score of 82%. [pause as he as zelda demolishes olimar in smash] i personally just really like brie larson. her name is a cheese. the cat was great too. why the in-depth questions? jude law? yeah, jude law is in it a pretty solid amount. lee pace? who is that? oh shit, ronan? uh, barely. he’s barely in it. can you not stand right in front of the tv. MOVE”

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★ 246

  For a film that’s almost completely incoherent for most of its first act — and seldom finds its footing after that — “Captain Marvel” is rather clear about its one big idea. Jude Law, playing an alien military commander named Yon-Rogg, mansplains it to his promising female protege as they spar during the opening scene. “There’s nothing more dangerous to a warrior than emotion,” he barks at Vers (Brie Larson). “You have to let go of the part of yourself that makes you vulnerable.” He’s Morpheus, she’s Neo, and this is the dojo fight from “The Matrix” if it were less visceral and more explicitly gendered.

  But “Captain Marvel,” despite expectations and appearances, is not a groundbreaking science-fiction saga from…

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  Review by Ian ★★ 27

  This is what happens when all the better Marvel producers, writers, and directors are busy with Avengers: Endgame.

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  Review by sam ★★★ 2

  ‪me: :( ‬

  ‪carol danvers:‬
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  ‪✨.. ✨ . *higher, further, faster baby.* ✨. ✨. . ✨ 
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  ‪me: 🤙🥰

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★½ 77

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  While Marvel is no doubt viewing CAPTAIN MARVEL as a stride forward in the representation department - this movie is scientifically designed to appeal to those particular values - it's a massive step backward in terms of formal technique and fooling folks that these MCU pictures are anything more than feature length installments in a television series that will only end once humans have scorched the earth and there is no signal on which to transmit these products of the Industrial Cape Complex. It's not quite Phase One, THOR level flat, but there's a rather pronounced lack of visual flash about our initial introduction to Carol Danvers, Air Force pilot and alien smasher of the patriarchy. All the criticisms that've…

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  Review by adrie ★★★★★ 17

  what makes HER a HERO is that she gets knocked down but she gets up again and you’re never gonna keep her down

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  Review by David Sims ★★★ 13

  She's the captain now

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½ 12

  Should it be enough that one of these is finally fronted by a female superhero who decides when and how to exercise her own formidable power? Maybe, but the movie surrounding her is an old-school MCU expository slog with almost zero narrative or visual idiosyncrasy. And don't even get me started on the obnoxious needle drops. A real step back after the last few relatively risky and weird entries. All that said I'd be up for it if the cat killed Thanos.

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  Review by Sean Baker 22

  Catching up with Marvels so I can see Endgame in theaters. 
  At least I know how Fury lost his eye. But seriously though, this film is an example of how I need humor or reality based action for Marvel films to interest me - so the train chase and the cat stuff were the highlights for me. 

  Watched at Cineplex Odeon Intl. Village Vancouver

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★ 57

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  unbelievable how they made a movie about imperialism is bad, that believing the military state’s propaganda leads to genocide and the displacement of refugees, and making the central character’s arc about rejecting the intrinsic faith of the state and fighting for what’s right, in a movie that is literally a recruitment ad for the United States Air Force. the irony is almost hilarious if it wasn’t so deeply fucking fascist.