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Man of Steel

Man of Steel (Superman)

2013

Zack Snyder

Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon ...

5.8

53,377

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action Clark Kent/Kal-El (Henry Cavill) is a young man who feels alienated from others because he has powers beyond anyone's imagination. Clark, who was transported to Earth years ago from dying planet Krypton, an advanced alien planet, struggles with the ultimate question – "Why am I here?" Raised by his adoptive parents Martha (Diane Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) in rural Kansas, Clark is shaped by their values and soon discovers ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"A humorless tone and relentlessly noisy aesthetics drag down this heavily hyped, brilliantly marketed tentpole attraction. (...) Snyder seems averse to staging a single scene in which there isn’t something catastrophic happening"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Caught in the slipstream between action and angst, 'Man of Steel' is a bumpy ride for sure. But there's no way to stay blind to its wonders (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Zack Snyder’s huge, backstory-heavy extravaganza is a rehab job that perhaps didn’t cry out to be done but proves so overwhelmingly insistent in its size and strength that it’s hard not to give in."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"At once frantically overblown and beautifully filigreed, 'Man of Steel' will turn on everyone it doesn’t turn off"	NEU
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"The Clark Knight. (...) It aches for more depth and warmth and humour, but this is spectacular sci-fi — huge, operatic, melodramatic, impressive. It feels the right Superman origin story for our era (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Man Of Steel doesn’t lack for spectacle, but after a while its emphasis on grand gestures and unwavering gravitas stops feeling heroic and begins to seem like overkill.	NEU
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"‘Man of Steel’ feels both modern and traditional (...) is punchy, engaging and fun (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"Superman reboot provides visual fireworks when our hero flies but liaison between Clark Kent and Lois Lane is a damp squib. (...) The whole film ends up feeling weighed down. (...) Rating: ★★★ (ouf ot five)"	NEU
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Village Voice	"In Man of Steel, There's Greatness in the Superman Origin Story. You'll believe a man can fly -- and is mostly worth watching. (...) [Henry Cavill] humanizes the gargantuan movie around him."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Henry Cavill has the strapping good looks of the comic icon, and humanity to match his superheroism (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Snyder films the violence in 'Man of Steel' the way he films most of the rest of the picture (...) It's a choice, and not a bad one, necessarily (...) but by the end it's a visually limiting one"	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Deploying an impeccable American accent, Brit Henry Cavill may be as charming as the late great Christopher Reeve (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Snyder tries to up the spectacle ante with ever more explosions, crashes, ... (...). But the result is (...) a genre that has finally reached the point of (...) exhaustion (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG

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