Black Widow feels like it was made by an algorithm

Published July 20, 2021 11:00am ET



The latest offering from Disney’s conveyor belt of Marvel superhero films travels back in time, circa 2016, to tell the tale of Natasha Romanoff: the Black Widow.

The first act of the Black Widow movie transports you to the mid-’90s, a post-Soviet era in which spies from the recently crumbled USSR have infiltrated a suburban Ohio neighborhood to spy on Americans.

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