But after the shapeshifting enemy Skrulls, led by the swaggering Talos ( Ben Mendelsohn), take her prisoner during a battle, she escapes and lands on a different planet: our own.
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And “Captain Marvel” is full of such less-than-subtle messaging. Her mentor, Jude Law’s Yon-Rogg, is constantly reminding her not to let her emotions get the best of her-a pointed commentary on the sexist notion that women are too emotional to handle tough jobs.
At the film’s start, she’s living and training as a warrior on the Kree planet of Hala.
(Boden and Fleck co-wrote the script with Geneva Robertson-Dworet, and all three share story-by credit with Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve.) Additionally, she has forgotten who she really is, so her interior life is as much of a blank to her as it is to us.ĭespite her fighting spirit, Carol often finds herself as a pawn trapped between various worlds where she feels as if she doesn’t belong. But while Larson is tough, plucky and skilled with a well-timed quip, her chief character trait seems to be rebelliousness. You’d rightly expect that their depiction of the title character-real name Carol Danvers-would be complex, compelling and abidingly human, despite her otherworldly superpowers. “ Sugar” (2008) is one of the most intimate and insightful movies ever made about baseball.
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“ Half Nelson” (2006), about a drug-addicted middle school teacher, is the movie that put Ryan Gosling on the map and earned him his first Oscar nomination. The prolonged intro in space and the big action sequences have a cheesy, retro feel to them that can be amusing but also inscrutable.īut co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have made their names writing and directing indie dramas featuring richly drawn characters facing real stakes. As for the former, perhaps that was intentional-yet another example of wallowing in period nostalgia alongside the grunge chic and girl-power anthems. “Captain Marvel” mostly takes place in the mid-1990s, and feels like it was made then, too, in terms of its technical prowess and emotional depth.
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