‘Captain Marvel,’ the ’90s movie you didn’t know you’d like

Published March 11, 2019 9:25pm ET



Captain Marvel” is a mixture of “Thor,” “Captain America: The First Avenger,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” which is to say it’s disjointed, wooden, and messy, but you really want to like it because it’s a Marvel movie.

Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel tells the story of Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), who is learning to harness her powerful energy abilities while trying to uncover a past she has forgotten from an accident.

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