Perspective: 'Captain Marvel' — Marvel’s first movie built around a woman — is not the empowering thrill it wants to be
From left: Algenis Perez Soto, Brie Larson and Gemma Chan. Larson plays the title character in “Captain Marvel.” By Ann Hornaday Ann Hornaday Movie critic Email Bio Follow Movie critic March 5 at 12:17 PM Rating:
Here, however, the wit begins to feel too self-consciously offhand for its own good. Structurally, the film is a gnarly tangle of trippy flashbacks, sludgy action scenes, complicated exposition and some amusing references to 1990s pop culture. But the emotional pull of “Captain Marvel” lies not in its often befogged title character, but in its far more charismatic ancillary figures.
Larson has a level, no-nonsense everydayness that feels right for her character, whose real identity we learn is a gifted pilot named Carol Danvers. Once she’s on Earth, she dons a grungy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt and flannel, which at one point Fury tells her to lose because she “looks like someone’s disaffected niece.
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