John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen ... you'll be confounded by the maudlin tone that hangs over most of this MCU offering. If you loved The Avengers and crave that feeling of seeing it for the first ...

Full of heart and humor, ‘Thunderbolts*’ makes character the focus – thanks to a superb cast -- but doesn’t skimp on the action or comic book fun.

Every new Marvel project seems to promise a new start for the MCU, but Thunderbolts * might be the only movie in recent memory that makes good on its word. Director Jake Schreier, known for his work on the Steven Yeun-led Netflix series Beef, takes some big swings, and they almost always pay off.