Reports of The Marvels being good have not been exaggerated

Nia DaCosta’s Captain Marvel sequel stands head and shoulders above its predecessor, with a bighearted story and a trio of performances that’ll remind you how much fun comic book storytelling can be.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers. Image: Marvel Studios

As was the case with Marvel Studios’ first Captain Marvel film back in 2019, the conversation around writer / director Nia DaCosta’s follow-up, The Marvels, has been marked by an inordinate amount of criticism that, to a certain extent,

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