Oh my god, we're a team.

The Marvels — 3/5

It's low-stakes high-stakes. Big cosmic stage, light comedy. Planets in peril and we're making JOKES?? Yes!! And all the better for it. As she showed in Ms. Marvel, Iman Vellani (and her family) is a fucking delight (and I hope she takes advantage of the next ten years to star in every high-school comedy about an international girl in love with the popular white guy). She carries comedy and drama well—which I can't say as much about with her co-stars. The emotional connection between Teyonah Parris and Brie Larson never connects, and we never really feel the weight that Captain Marvel carries for her past mis-deeds, nor quite the extent of the glorious purpose of her villain. And I am in full 'forgive that' mode because someone cut twenty to forty minutes out of that storyline to make a breezy, fun, 105-minute movie that drops you in the action and just says 'fuck it' from then on out. Planets where everyone sings! Cats that eat people in order to save them! Stealing our sun! It's a superhero movie. It's having fun, and the people inside seem to be having fun. Quelle tragédie. I think this will get looked back on years from now as low-key one of the best Marvel movies in terms of pure rewatchability.