The 31st Marvel adventure balloons the scale and introduces a conqueror. But the effort is miniscule.

Taika Waititi follows his rambunctious "Thor: Ragnarok" with a scattershot adventure that gives its most electrifying ideas short thrift.

Amid the forced gags and disorienting battles are glimpses of an emotional depth which the world's biggest franchise has typically shrunk away from.

An electric pace and unabashedly sentimental core help this symbiote-sprinkled franchise inch closer to its truest, fullest self.

Tony Leung is the not-so-secret weapon to the MCU's first origin story since "Captain Marvel," an overlong but exciting and thematically intriguing entry.

Less an expansive Marvel entry than a deeper one, "Black Widow" stays relatively low to Earth before indulging bombastic tendencies in its third act.