Captain Marvel review: The hero we, and Marvel Studios, need right now

Enlarge / Captain Marvel is here, and thank goodness. (credit: Marvel Studios)

This review contains as few plot spoilers as the author could muster. (We even chose not to use certain film images that could be construed as spoilers, just in case.)

As much as we at Ars Technica like a given Marvel Studios film, even we can get burnt out by hero-movie fatigue. Quirky heroes face insurmountable odds. Then, wouldn'tcha know it, the heroes surmount them. We've seen it before-cheered at the action scenes, smiled at the jokes, forgiven the formula.

After so many entries, all burning a path toward mega-events like last year's boring Avengers: Infinity War, it's easy to lose sight of something unique to the superhero genre: protagonists who swear to protect the world at all costs. That's a big ask of any human, whether or not they've been granted insane powers.

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