MOVIE: Captain America – Brave New World (2025)
Captain America: Brave New WorldYear: 2025Rating: PG-13Length: 118 minutes / 1.97 hours
There’s a certain point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) where you wonder what decisions go into making a Disney+ TV show or a movie. Captain America: Brave New World (2025) felt like one of those decisions that might have worked better as a second season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Sure, it introduces a few things that will hopefully be important in later MCU movies, but then that’s the bigger problem of the MCU needing “filler” movies (like this and Wakanda Forever (2022)) to provide exposition for Avengers movies so they don’t end up being four hours long.
I think part of the problem stems from Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and his struggle to accept the mantle of Captain America. This was exactly the same thing that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier covered, but I understand how not everyone watches the Disney+ MCU series and might...