DC Studios’ new Superman movie feels like a wild comic book that’s been brought to life. For years, Warner Bros. Discovery has been playing a desperate game of catchup in hopes of recreating the success that Marvel achieved with its live action comics adaptations.

T here's a lot riding on James Gunn's Superman, both as a reboot of DC's movie universe and as the world's reintroduction to the Man of Steel. It's fitting, then, that its closest

David Corenswet's slightly puppyish Superman radiates a joy in what he's doing, but he’s far from invincible. That lends the film emotional stakes.