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New Captain America 2,Winter Soldier movie got mostly positive reviews from top critics. Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures finally released their new super hero/action flick, “Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier” into theaters today, and the top critics have served up their reviews for it. It turns out that most of them definitely liked it as it got an overall 70 rating out of a possible 100 across 39 reviews at Metacritic.com.
The movie stars: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Georges St-Pierre, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp, and Maximiliano Hernández. We’ve included some snippets from a few of the critics,below.
Odie Henderson at RogerEbert.com, gave it a great 88 score, stating, “The rare film in this genre that serves as both entry point and continuation. For a change, you can walk in cold and you won’t be too lost.” Richard Roeper from the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it another 88 grade. He said: “Co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo and the team of screenwriters have fashioned a story with just the right balance of superhero fun, nods to the greater Marvel Universe and genuine dramatic tension.”
Owen Gleiberman over at Entertainment Weekly, gave it an 83 score, stating, “The creators of Captain America: The Winter ­Soldier have brought off something fresh and bold.” Joe Neumaier at the New York Daily News, gave it an 80, saying, “Parents, take note: For all its heart, this is a tougher, more morally complex movie than its predecessors. Young kids carrying their miniversions of Cap’s famous shield may be in for a jolt.”
Claudia Puig from USA Today, gave it a 75 grade. She stated: “An often breathlessly exciting action thriller told with humor and intelligence.” Ty Bur from the Boston Globe, gave it a 75 score, stating, “The new film isn’t nearly as bleak as Christopher Nolan’s take on Batman (in general, Marvel seems more risk-averse when it comes to fiddling with the crown jewels), but it still creates an action-movie landscape torn between patriotic ideals and harsh post-9/11 realpolitik.”
Michael Phillips over at the Chicago Tribune, gave it a 75, stating, “The movie does its duty. It’s a reliable commodity, delivered efficiently and well, like pizza.” Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers, gave it a 75 score. He claimed: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier is every rousing, whup-ass thing you want in an escapist adventure.”
Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post, gave it a 75 grade, stating, “A baggy, at times brutal conglomeration of surprisingly deep character development and aggressively percussive action, The Winter Soldier is a comic-book movie only in its provenance.”
Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter, gave it a 70, saying, “For sheer plotting and audience involvement, this is a notch above any of the other Avengers-feeding Marvel entries, the one that feels most like a real movie rather than a production line of ooh-and-ahh moments for fanboys.”
Scott Foundas over at Variety, gave it another 70 score, stating, “It’s to the credit of the Russos that they give the characters such room to breathe in a movie that easily might have been about rushing from one gargantuan setpiece to the next.”
Manohla Dargis from the New York Times, gave it a 50 grade. She said: “Given how little creative wiggle room there is in properties like The Winter Soldier, it’s a minor triumph that the Russos imprint any personality on the movie, which is less a stand-alone work than a part of an ever-expanding multimedia enterprise.”
Mick LaSalle over at the San Francisco Chronicle, gave it another 50, claiming, “Has the usual overlong running time, the half-hearted feints in the direction of human feeling and the obligatory action sequences that are big without being either exciting or particularly legible.”
Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times, gave it a 50 as well. He said: “It’s a product of the highest quality, but at the end of the day that’s what it is: a machine-made, assembly-line product whose strengths tend to feel like items checked off a master list rather than being the result of any kind of individual creative touch.”
 
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