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Review: 'Captain Marvel' and Brie Larson boost the MCU to even greater heights

A very good year for Marvel Studios is about to get even better. "Captain Marvel" has arrived in town.

Following up on the extraordinary success of "Black Panther," which created a vibrant Afrocentric world and earned huge sums and three Oscars in the process, Marvel's first female stand-alone title character makes quite an entrance of her own.

With a luminous and powerful Brie Larson starring as a woman with a knockout punch that would have daunted Muhammad Ali, the news is not that this pre-sold property about a superhero coming into her

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