‘Black Widow’ Review: A Superhero Movie That’s Grittier, More Layered With Feeling, Than You Expect

**Minor spoilers ahead for “Black Widow.”** Marvel‘s “Black Widow” had plenty of Easter Eggs and a big standout was the prison arm wrestling scene when David Harbour‘s Red Guardian snaps the wrist of a large fella that was willing to call him out on his tall tales of battling against Captain America, who is pointed out to be frozen at this point time.

Watching the tumultuous and punishing Russian extravaganza Petrov’s Flu is like suffering a physical assault in a dark alley, or having a load of garbage jammed down your throat and piled on top of you until you just can’t take it anymore. Experimental theater bad boy and 2018 Cannes competition Leto entrant Kirill Serebrennikov takes a throw-in-everything-including-the-kitchen sink approach to painting an appallingly bleak portrait of modern Russian life.

Jon Burlingame It’s a pretty rare occasion when the director of a superhero movie sits down with the composer to talk about music and neither of them ever uses the word “action” or even “superhero.”Instead, “Black Widow” director Cate Shortland and composer Lorne Balfe talked about the backstory of Natasha Romanoff and her sister, Yelena Belova.

James Gunn is best known for helming and writing all three Guardians of the Galaxy movies in the MCU.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIt’s been two years since iconoclastic Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov was released from a 20-month period of house arrest on embezzlement charges widely considered to have been trumped up by the government. If things haven’t been plain sailing since then — the revived case ended in a suspended sentence last year, confining the director to his home country — he has at least been free to roam, work and film in Russia.

was truthfulness.

David Harbour has revealed that his wife Lily Allen had “mixed feelings” about his Black Widow weight loss. The Stranger Things star, who married Allen in 2020, plays a Russian super-soldier and father to Scarlett Johansson’s titular superhero in the new Marvel film.

If you’ve ever fancied taking the train from Moscow to the far northwestern Russian city of Murmansk above the Arctic Circle, Compartment No. 6 (Hytti No. 6) will almost certainly cure you of the urge. At the same time, Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s second film, which is about such a journey, offers up vivid emotional twists and turns that are charted with unusual acuity, qualities that will propel it to a modest but well noted life on the festival circuit.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCostume designer Jany Temime says working on Marvel’s “Black Widow” was a dream job.

Jessica Kiang For anyone who’s ever got drunk on bad schnapps with a stranger, for anyone who’s ever been properly alone in a nowhere-town and spoken to a dial tone just to look like they had something to do, for anyone who’s ever been asked how to say “I love you” in their language and has patiently sounded out the words for “Fuck you” … Juho Kuosmanen’s deeply delightful Cannes competition title “Compartment No.

Marvel's latest big budget entry into the extended universe has arrived after being delayed more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both in theaters and on Disney+ the same day.Scarlett Johansson is back as Natasha Romanoff in the film, who has to return to Russia and reunite with her sister (Florence Pugh) to stop an immensely powerful villain.

Scarlett Johansson's original Avenger is finally having her story told, mining a decade's worth of Easter eggs — about Budapest, the Red Room and Dreykov's daughter — and introducing the family of Russian spies we never knew Natasha had: Her «mother,» former Widow and leading scientist Melina (Rachel Weisz); her «father,» the super-soldier Red Guardian (David Harbour) and her little «sister,» the assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh).

He may be barred from leaving Russia and thus unable to travel to Cannes, but arthouse cinema favorite Kirill Serebrennikov is refusing to let that dampen his spirit ahead of the premiere of his latest movie, Petrov’s Flu, in the French fest’s Competition.

Kevin Feige told ET on the red carpet ahead of 's premiere. So, while the first film in the studio's fourth Phase is outwardly a swan song for its titular superheroine — an ending for Scarlett Johansson's superspy and Avenger — the movie is equally about setting up what comes next.Or as producer Brian Chapek put it, «This movie needed to do two things: The most important thing was celebrate Natasha's legacy.

Finally after a near 15 month wait, Marvel’s long-awaited Black Widow will debut around the world after being locked up from the pandemic, and the industry’s global weekend expectation is as high as $140M.

Stranger Things and Black Widow.As seen at the climactic end of the third season of the Netflix sci-fi phenomenon, Harbour’s character – police chief Jim Hopper – finds himself locked up in a Soviet prison.As revealed in a new interview with Harbour in the Guardian, a few months after finishing up filming on Stranger Things season three, Harbour was offered a role in Marvel‘s Black Widow, which would also see him locked up in Russia.Harbour says he had to reveal the news to Stranger Things