Much like the all-female “Ghostbusters” film of 2016and the recent female-led “Star Wars” films, “Captain Marvel” has served as a flash point for…
Much like the all-female “Ghostbusters” film of 2016and the recent female-led “Star Wars” films, “Captain Marvel” has served as a flash point for online anger even before hitting theaters. Critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes had to change its policies to stop online trolls from leaving negative reviews before even seeing the film, and YouTube has been flooded by videos calling for boycotts of the movie in part because its star, Brie Larson, said that she wanted to see greater gender and racial diversity in film criticism.
Fair or not, as Marvel’s first female-led film, many will look to “Captain Marvel” to be a standard-bearer in the same way 2018’s “Black Panther” was for black superheroes. But is the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to the task?
While the film had earned an 84 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this article’s publication, reviews for the movie have been generally mixed — a single number can’t adequately capture the range of critical response, and many of the reviews coded as “fresh” or “rotten” by the critic aggregation site have a bit more nuance.
