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Blue Beetle

2023

Angel Manuel Soto

Xolo Maridueña, Susan Sarandon, Adriana Barraza, Damián Alcázar ...

4.8

5,000

Fantasy. Action. Sci-Fi Jaime Reyes, a recent graduate, returns home full of goals for his future, only to discover that his home is not exactly as he left it. In his quest to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab chooses Jaime as a symbiotic host, Jaime is given an incredible suit of armor with extraordinary and unpredictable ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The brisk, cheeky, unabashed gizmo-happy triviality of 'Blue Beetle' is enough to make the film feel like a breath of fresh pulp"
		Bob Strauss San Francisco Chronicle	"This movie's Latin flavor feels fresh, with welcome bits of political bite and funny takes on the genre's over-familiar conventions (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"'Blue Beetle' is in several ways refreshingly new. It is also, for a few other reasons, tediously familiar (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Yolanda Machado Entertainment Weekly	"'Blue Beetle' never loses sight of the community it seeks to honor, not once pandering nor offering surface-level representation of what it means to be Latino"
		Maya Phillips The New York Times	"A prime example of somnambulist filmmaking that lulls the audience into a mindless stupor"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"'Blue Beetle' works and that puts it ahead of the game for most DC Comics-derived movies (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		John Serba Decider	"Our excitement wanes mightily in the face of another underwhelming DC movie. But Blue Beetle generates just enough goodwill to warrant a tepid recommendation"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"Refreshingly, 'Blue Beetle' injects DC universe with Latino richness and focus"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A solidly entertaining diversion but suffers from overplayed beats (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Xolo Maridueña shines in entertaining and emotional DC entry"
		Nicholas Barber BBC	"'Blue Beetle' is both tediously simple and annoyingly confusing (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Neil Smith Total Film	"In a genre increasingly subsumed by numbing bombast, ['Blue Beetle']'s abundance of personality might just be progress enough (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"Soto's superhero flick makes family the film's strength for an enriching time at the movies. 'Blue Beetle' does break expectations (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"'Blue Beetle' achieves what a superhero origin story should, despite its familiar flaws (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"The emotional beats are strenuous yawns, the crashing lack of novelty disguised desperately, but not well. It's dim, and it's dull (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"The DC movie universe has been holding out for a hero, and it might just be a 22-year-old Mexican college grad with a really cool family (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Dan Jolin Empire	"[It] owes a lot to the sheer wit and warmth of its supporting cast, which will earn it far more approval than its so-so CG antics and origin-story familiarity (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"Soto has brought together a captivating ensemble that not only gives us a new hero to root for but also a whole wonderful, warm, and wacky family to embrace"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"For a film that incessantly natters on about Jaime's purpose, 'Blue Beetle' has bafflingly little sense of what its own might be"
		Tatiana Hullender Screen Rant	"[Its] family-centric story has universal appeal, but the strength of the new DC movie lies in Jaime Reyes' ties to his Mexican heritage (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A story with underwhelming VFX, a disappointingly cartoonish villain and a final battle sequence and epilogue that follow the pattern of a dozen or more previous superhero origin stories (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"'Blue Beetle' is broad and endearingly kid-friendly in its humor. It is also precise in its homages to Mexican culture (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Ángel Manuel Soto can congratulate himself on bringing freshness to an often turgid genre but the problems are pretty typical (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"What Angel Manuel Soto and Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer are bringing to the screen via Reyes' rise into the good-guy ranks isn't just a genre, but a culture"
		Justin Lowe AV Club	"'Blue Beetle' ultimately feels more like a teaser than a fully satisfying experience replete with memorable characters and impressive world-building"
		Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"Whether you want to watch 'Blue Beetle' because you love comic adaptions or just as a sci-fi body horror 80s homage, you should be entertained (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Justin Clark Slant	"A unique cultural angle and talented lead can’t elevate this uninspired film (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Alyssa Mora IGN	"A superhero movie that sets itself apart within the bloated genre through the deeply connected bonds of Jaime and the Reyes family"

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