The Inventory

Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.

From its complex villain to its amazing fictional world, Black Panther took the superhero movie higher

Wonder Woman crashed the boys’ club of superhero cinema, saving the DCEU in the process

After three super fiascos, Deadpool finally made a superstar out of Ryan Reynolds

Briefly but blissfully, Age Of Ultron plays like an Avengers hangout movie

With Guardians Of The Galaxy, Marvel made household names out of interstellar second-stringers

For better or worse, Man Of Steel is the exact Superman movie Zack Snyder wanted to make

Years before the Infinity War, the Avengers assembled for Marvel’s first crossover blockbuster blast

Marvel somehow got Captain America and his adventure-serial origin story just right

12/14/18 6:00AM

Scott Pilgrim is more zero than superhero, but his movie is still a zippy comic-to-screen delight

11/30/18 6:00AM

The Watchmen movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point

11/16/18 6:00AM

Does the most important year for superhero movies belong to The Dark Knight or Iron Man?

11/02/18 6:00AM

Venom may be bad, but at least it didn’t cast Topher Grace in the title role

10/19/18 6:00AM

Superman returns, but he forgot to bring the action and the fun back with him

10/05/18 6:00AM

Christopher Nolan dragged Batman (and superhero cinema) into a more serious “real” world

The Incredibles didn't need comic-book source material (or origin stories) to do superheroes right

Hulk didn’t smash

Sam Raimi’s bright, fun Spider-Man doubled as a valentine to a post-9/11 New York

How did a great Alan Moore comic become a lousy Johnny Depp mystery?

The modern era of the superhero movie begins in earnest with X-Men

Mystery Men clumsily spoofed superhero movies before the genre even really took flight

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