Black widow?
More like boring widow
Black Widow
Her world. Her secrets. Her legacy.
Rating
2.5 (2)
Release Date
7/7/2021Runtime
134 minsOverview
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
How It Feels
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A sleek spy thriller that functions less as a typical Marvel spectacle and more as a reckoning with a character's fractured past. It's intimate character work dressed up in action sequences, exploring the cost of espionage and the possibility of reclaiming agency from a life scripted by others.
Mood
TenseDefiantBittersweet
Themes
IdentityFamilyRedemptionBetrayal
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
HandheldNaturalistic
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence
Scarlett Johansson
Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Florence Pugh
Yelena Belova
Rachel Weisz
Melina
David Harbour
Alexei
Ray Winstone
Dreykov
Ever Anderson
Young Natasha
Violet McGraw
Young Yelena
O-T Fagbenle
Mason
William Hurt
Secretary Ross
Olga Kurylenko
Antonia / Taskmaster
Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Young Antonia
Liani Samuel
Lerato
Reviews
Yelena is the most fun character to debut in an MCU movie in ages. Obsessed.
Black Widow is one of the more serious MCU movies, with a pretty dark plot compared to a lot of the others. Natasha deserved a stand-alone film, and casting crushed it by filling out her family with Florence Pugh, David Harbour, and Rachel Weisz. I don't really like the plot choices around Taskmaster; that's the biggest strike against it.
Favorite (Not Necessarily Best) Four From Every Year Since Birth
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