The DC Universe takes flight as James Gunn's film, Superman, delivers a wacky, thoughtful, and uplifting thrill ride.

Far from the triumphant return to form DC and Warner Bros hoped for, James Gunn's 'Superman' is a generic, dull, overwritten disaster.

Are you ready for the new "Superman" movie? Here's what you need to know, from early social reactions to intel on the new Man of Steel.

Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) with the lesser-known freaks, oddities and grotesquerie of back-issue comics.

James Gunn’s Superman is the cinematic shot of hope the DC Universe desperately needed—an invigorating, emotionally rich, and thematically weighty superhero

The latest film releases include Superman, Kill the Jockey, Apocalypse in the Tropics, and To A Land Unknown. Weighing in are Christy Lemire, film critic for RogerEbert.com and co-host of the YouTube channel Breakfast All Day, and Witney Seibold, senior writer at SlashFilm and co-host of the podcast Critically Acclaimed Network.

The newest take on the caped hero wisely embraces his corniness.

Superman has set an audience score record for Superman movies since 1978, a true feat. It also almost beat the critic score as well.