'Marvel's Cloak & Dagger' Shines A Light That Flickers — And Then Glows
The latest Marvel adaptation — about two teens with strangely linked super-powers — is so concerned with being a character-based drama it starts out slow and talky, but sticking with it pays off.
It's not ... not problematic.
I mean: Experimental heroin transforms two teenage runaways into super-beings. One's a black kid who contains a hungry darkness linked to an evil dimension that devours light. The other's a white blonde girl who gives off light that can purify the souls of those it touches — and cure their drug dependency, to boot. (As superpowers go, "Being a 100-megawatt Betty Ford Center" is not exactly thick on the ground.) The two crazy mixed-up kids depend on each other —
