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Eternals: Mixed reviews for Chloé Zhao's 'insipid' Marvel movie - BBC News
Oct 25, 2021 1 min, 12 secs
Eternals, the latest movie from the Marvel universe, has received mixed reviews, with critics calling it over-ambitious yet progressive.

It is the first major studio film by Chloé Zhao, who won the best director Oscar earlier this year for Nomadland.

The paper's critic Steve Rose said Zhao "manages to get some nice-looking shots and personal drama in her superhero debut, but there's just too much mythology to explain".

Eternals offers two major firsts for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

The Telegraph's Robbie Collin also gave it two stars, stressing that Marvel had attempted to "push boundaries" but with "insipid" results.

He felt that Zhao's "compassionate eye and poetic feel for landscape", which helped her also win best film for Nomadland at this year's Academy Awards, was "nigh-on undetectable".

Writer Nicholas Barber still called it "watchable but ultimately unmemorable", and possibly "the most disappointing MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe] film yet".

"Director Chloé Zhao's entry into the superhero world is assured, ambitious and told on a dizzyingly cosmic scale - but even it can't escape the clichés of superhero storytelling."?

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