Review: ‘Eternals’ has a miscast director and a crowded cast in a story about savior-outcasts. It adds up to Marvel fatigue
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Nov 02, 2021
2 minutes
“Eternals” introduces a slew of Marvel Cinematic Universe firsts. First same-sex kiss. First tender love scene between two hetero superheroes — discreet, brief but enough to remind you how much of the comic book genre is about looking good, alone, instead of quality time in pairs.
Unfortunately, another first: “Eternals” is co-writer and director Chloe Zhao’s first dull movie. After “Songs My Brother Taught Me” (2015), the sublime neo-Western “The
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