| Stephanie Goodman Film Editor | | Hi, movie fans! | | This weekend brings a big test for the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Will its first female superhero picture, "Captain Marvel," wow moviegoers? | | The studio was slow to showcase a woman in her own film, and even the actress who plays her, Brie Larson, had reservations. But she signed on, she told our reporter Dave Itzkoff, after realizing that while other Marvel heroes are weak at the start of their origin stories, Captain Marvel "was a badass before she got her powers." (She was also a gender-fluid alien at one point in the comic books, but that's another story.) | | Is the movie any good? Our critic A.O. Scott calls it "pretty good fun" and adds, "It's not too long, not too self-important, and benefits from the craft and talent of a cast that includes Annette Bening, Jude Law and Ben Mendelsohn." Also a cat that ... well, I don't want to give it away. | | If you're not into superheroes, I feel you. So does our critic Manohla Dargis, who wrote a rave review of "Gloria Bell," starring a "transcendent" Julianne Moore as a 50-something divorcée. That's something Hollywood rarely cares about, but Moore herself told our reporter Julie Bloom, "It's important to see women make mistakes at different stages. Just because you get older, you don't know everything and it's not like you stop living." | | See you at the movies! | | |
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