Captain Marvel reviews: What do critics say about Captain Marvel movie?

Captain Marvel’s Rotten Tomatoes rating is in at a highly respectable 91 per cent. The movie is out in cinemas on March 8, but the reviews embargo has been lifted today, Tuesday, March 5. The score may change as more reviews pile in, but for now those in,volved in the film can breathe easy.

What do critics say about Captain Marvel?

The Express.co.uk review gave the movie five out of five stars.

We said: “There is an easiness to Captain Marvel – watching the film is exactly what watching a superhero movie should be.

“Captain Marvel offers its audiences a chance for escapism, and to imagine a world in which one woman can change the course of the future.”

Kaitlyn Booth for Bleeding Cool:

“There are moments in Captain Marvel, even more so in the third act, where everything comes together so perfectly that it brings tears to your eyes.”

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Hannah Woodhead for Little White Lies:

“A fight scene choreographed to No Doubt’s ‘Just a Girl’ feels like the most solid ‘comic book’ moment we’ve had in a Marvel film for quite some time.

“This is especially notable given that the rest of the fight scenes are quite forgettable, in the way that superhero movie battles tend to be.”

Helen O’Hara for Empire:

“This is not another cheap girl-power cliché; it’s an explicitly feminist apotheosis.”

Stephanie Watts for One Room With A View:

“With a well-written story, dedicated and fun performances and a sprinkling of ’90s nostalgia, Captain Marvel is a gratifying ride with a badass woman at its heart.”

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Kayti Burt for Den Of Geek

“On a character level, it is thrilling and cathartic to see Carol so thoroughly embrace her power, delighting in her ability to soar – but, visually, it isn’t anything new.

“That being said, Carol’s hero moment is a delightful subversion of the traditional story beat, not to mention one that feels directly informed by Carol’s experiences as a woman.”

Meg Downey for IGN:

“It’s strange to feel the MCU suddenly pivot back to the pure origin story routine after the last two years have been so experimental, and it’s hard not to walk away wishing that Carol would have gotten the Black Panther or Spider-Man treatment with an introduction built into a previous movie to help add a bit more narrative weight.”

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Brandon Zachary for CBR:

“There’s a lot riding on the success of Captain Marvel, both as the first female-led film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and as the effective flagship character for the sprawling, blockbuster franchise moving forward…

“It’s a heavy burden that Captain Marvel effortlessly shoulders — and even shrugs off — as it instead focuses on an intimate story about identity and empowerment, delivering one of the best instalments of the MCU to date.”

Robbie Collin for The Telegraph:

“But as you watch, and perhaps realise this image might mean as much to the next generation of women as the shots of a soaring Christopher Reeve did to chaps my age, you can almost feel the cinema expanding around you, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice after a swig from the Drink Me flask.

“All of which leaves the Men’s Rights trolls who are noisily vowing to spurn the film for its allegedly feminist overtones looking all the more ridiculous.”

Captain Marvel is out in cinemas on March 8, 2019.