Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) with the lesser-known freaks, oddities and grotesquerie of back-issue comics.

James Gunn's film is both warmly empathetic and shockingly political, with David Corenswet playing a down-to-earth Clark Kent. The post Review: ‘Superman’ is an achingly human antidote to a cruel world appeared first on Boston.