James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ dazzles with visuals but stumbles on emotion, delivering more spectacle than soul in the 2025 reboot.

David Corenswet's Superman is upon us, but James Gunn isn’t done with the Man of Steel as he gives a brief, but promising update on a Superman “sequel”.

The director James Gunn reboots the DC Universe with "Superman," and smartly skips the character's over-told origin story.

Rather than give an origin story to the iconic DC hero, Gunn’s film picks up in a world that is well familiar with Superman and has several other heroes flying around as the Justice Gang, an early prototype of what’s soon to become the Justice League.

The David Corenswet-led film is both a reboot and the big-screen introduction to a new DC Universe that will unfold in the coming years across movies and television. While Superman isn’t technically the first official new DCU project —that honor belongs to last winter’s Creature Commandos—the new film is Gunn’s first broad-stroke,