Thunderbolts* featured a particularly dark moment that, for a minute, made me think that it had broken one of the franchise's most sacred rules.

The element of Thunderbolts* marketing in question concerns Yelena's fighting skills ... in almost boredom or her fending off other MCU characters like Ghost and John Walker, Thunderbolts ...

But Thunderbolts* feels like an MCU throwback in the best way, one that allows its characters and own story to be the main focus rather than wider concerns. Like James Gunn did with Guardians 3 ...

Florence Pugh leads a group of D-list antiheroes in a film that balances self-deprecating comedy with mental health concerns ... to make sense of the MCU going forward. For the rest of us ...

She may as well be speaking for the post-Endgame MCU ... may fit its thematic concerns but prevents the material from popping. (Warning: Minor spoilers follow.) Thunderbolts* eventually pairs ...

The trailers are misleading us, something we’ve come to expect from any MCU movie. But the biggest mystery about the Thunderbolts* concerns that asterisk in the title. I aready think I know what ...

In Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers, we’re introduced to one of the MCU’s most powerful characters ever, in the form of Lewis Pullman’s Bob Reynolds, a.k.a. the Sentry. In the film ...

While this movie sets the stage for Avengers: Doomsday in a big way, it also expands on story arcs and characters from several previous MCU films and TV shows. The Thunderbolts also have a storied ...

Following Thunderbolts*, the MCU has the opportunity to do something exciting and different with the Thunderbolts and Avengers. The question of which team serves as the real Avengers needs to be ...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is beyond saving at this point as a cohesive whole, but it's still capable of making some good movies. That's what its latest installment, Thunderbolts*, establishes ...

While it’s unclear if the Thunderbolts quintet will show up in July’s “Fantastic Four,” that movie is set during the 1960s. But in the MCU, weirder things have happened.