Captain America: Brave New World
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: February 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 56 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
25
Negative:
17
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Paste MagazineRory DohertyFeb 13, 2025
Directed by Julius Onah, Brave New World is as visually lifeless as the most lifeless MCU thrillers, marred by needless overcutting, flimsy digital backdrops and stilted composition; thematically, it says nothing confidently and even less coherently. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonFeb 12, 2025
While Lumbly brings a refreshing amount of Black anger and cynicism to his performance, Mackie is stuck in a kumbaya mode designed to not offend white viewers. It may be a brave new world, but it’s the same old story. Read full review
38
ObserverDylan RothFeb 12, 2025
Not particularly good or bad, it is “another Marvel movie” — certainly not the cure to what’s been ailing the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Endgame. Read full review
37
Washington PostTy BurrFeb 12, 2025
If you’ve been committed to the MCU over all these years and iterations, you may find the new movie an acceptable entry in a never-ending saga. I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it. Read full review
30
Film ThreatAlan NgFeb 14, 2025
The problem with Brave New World falls squarely on the writing and the story. Read full review
30
The Irish TimesBrandon YuFeb 13, 2025
With its cheap action and garish visuals, it’s then that we enter yet another genre altogether: action-figure commercial. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBrandon YuFeb 12, 2025
The writing is stiff and the ensemble is mostly charmless, while the visuals are slapdash. Read full review
30
Vanity FairRichard LawsonFeb 12, 2025
Brave New World is a bunch of characters wandering around in search of meaning, the Marvel machine creaking loudly as it tries to whip up some grand mythos around these B-tier figures. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 12, 2025
The notion of the self-doubting hero is nothing new. Still, it might have been interesting to pursue, had it been handled here with anything resembling wit, or intelligence, or depth. Read full review
30
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiFeb 12, 2025
There’s nothing brave about this movie. There’s nothing new either. And sure, it technically takes place in the world, but one out of three is bad. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 14, 2025
There isn’t a laugh or light moment in this unwieldy beast of a movie. As a political allegory, it doesn’t play. As Marvel action pic, it’s sorely lacking. At least they spared no expense in the cherry blossoms dept. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 12, 2025
If you thought Marvel Studios was committed to getting back on track by making fewer movies of higher quality, wait till you see Captain America: Brave New World...The situation over there is so dire, they’ve brought back a plotline from “Eternals.” “Eternals”! Read full review
25
The Associated PressMark KennedyFeb 12, 2025
Director Julius Onah does well with the action but fumbles the quieter moments and supervises editing that’s the opposite of crisp, not helped by script writers who ape military language — “Negative, the package is the priority” — and grandiose sentiment — “The country is lost.” Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsFeb 12, 2025
This movie is anything but brave. It is the most feckless, spineless blockbuster of the last decade. Read full review
20
The AtlanticDavid SimsFeb 14, 2025
Any subversive edges have been sanded off this script, which is credited to five people. It doesn’t explore the racial underpinnings of Wilson’s budding relationship with the government, despite its mistreatment of the prior Black Captain America, nor does it reckon with the president’s desire to use him as a patriotic prop. Read full review
20
The TimesKevin MaherFeb 12, 2025
It’s so inane and confused, in fact, that it suggests there are no storytelling iterations left for the Marvel Cinematic Universe other than, perhaps, a wounded retreat into the overloaded one-joke irony of the Deadpool flicks. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 13, 2025
This is a movie of pussyfooting and sidestepping, unconcerned with race, history, heroism or really any idea at all beyond “Hulk smash.” Read full review
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