The summer movie season has officially kicked off, and Thunderbolts* is already being celebrated as one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s strongest entries in years—not just by critics, but by audiences as well. There’s something Disney and Marvel both really needed. With a Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 95% and an average rating of 4.6/5, a solid A- CinemaScore, Marvel’s latest team-up film is striking a chord.
The film brings together Marvel’s antiheroes—Yelena Belova (