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Fantastic Four: The First Steps: Every deep-cut comic book character seen in the new Marvel movie

All the deep cut Marvel comic book characters in Fantastic Four

Total Film

The Fantastic Four: First Steps reviews are coming in hot. Here’s a round-up of what people are saying about the MCU’s latest

Flame on!

Destructoid

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is no disaster – but it’s no Superman, either

3/5 Vanessa Kirby is a standout as Susan Storm and the set design dazzles, but this franchise-starter is still weighed down by the usual unfunny banter and pathological Marvel aversion to risk

The Independent UK

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'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Review: Marvel's First Family Just Saved The MCU

After years of struggling, the MCU finally finds its footing again.

Inverse

The Fantastic Four: First Steps review — one of the greatest Marvel movies of all time

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a detailed, character rich and fun arrival of Marvel’s iconic superhero family marks the beginning of a new era for the MCU.

WhatToWatch

‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ review: A visually stunning and “fantastic” take at Marvel’s First Family

The team is here and they're perfect.

The Mary Sue

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Review: What Superman Does So Right, The MCU’s Latest Gets Wrong

The latest MCU movie suffers from being all plot, no story.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps review: "An occasionally thrilling heroic adventure that sits safely within a B-tier MCU range"

Total Film

Fantastic Four director says there was no need to cover Marvel's First Family getting their powers in First Steps, claiming that had already "been done very well" in the 2005 and 2015 movies

Exclusive | Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman was a big fan of the 2005 and 2015 movies

Total Film

Fantastic Four's post-credits scene has something major in common with Thunderbolts': it was shot by Avengers: Doomsday directors the Russo brothers

The Russo brothers directed the Fantastic Four post-credits scene

Total Film

Marvel director Matt Shakman explains why The Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn't require any MCU homework: 'There are no Easter eggs or other heroes'

The Fantastic Four: First Steps filmmaker reveals how it felt to direct the MCU's first real standalone movie.

TechRadar

Fantastic Four director speaks on 'passing the baton' to Russo brothers for Avengers: Doomsday

With production on the 2026 blockbuster now underway, The Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman is ready to "pass the baton" to Joe and Anthony Russo for Avengers: Doomsday.

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The Marvel movies and shows to watch before The Fantastic Four: First Steps – a spoiler-free guide

Get ready for The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Total Film

Was Doctor Doom ever considered as The Fantastic Four: First Steps' main villain? The Marvel movie's director has his say

Matt Shakman explains why Galactus was picked over Doctor Doom as the Marvel movie's primary antagonist.

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Evening Standard

Playing pregnant superhero in Fantastic Four was a great honour – Vanessa Kirby

Kirby and Pedro Pascal play Sue Storm/Invisible Woman and Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

TechRadar

The Fantastic Four: First Steps director has a blunt message for fans who criticised the Marvel movie's visual effects: 'I think they're beautiful'

Matt Shakman has a terse response for people who have hit out at the Marvel Phase 6 movie's visual effects.

Total Film

The comic book history of The Mole Man – the first villain The Fantastic Four ever faced

Fantastic Four: First Steps will introduce Mole Man to the MCU, a character tied to the Fantastic Four’s origin in the comics, but with an anti-hero twist in the new movie

The Independent UK

Early reactions for The Fantastic Four: First Steps call film ‘out of this world’

Early reactions ahead of the film’s July 25 release are promising

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Cinemablend

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Has Screened, And ‘Fantastic’ Is Just One Of The Words Being Used To Describe The MCU Movie

Pundits have thoughts on the latest MCU film.

Total Film

Early Fantastic Four: The First Steps reactions call it "one of Marvel’s best"

The First Family takes the lead in "quite possibly the best Marvel Studios film ever released"

Total Film

"He's five minutes away from destroying the world or saving it at any moment": Marvel director teases Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby's "hugely important" Fantastic Four couple

Exclusive: Matt Shakman also admits that his real-life "parental anxiety" (and an unfortunate incident with a well) inspired The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Guardian - UK

Whiteboard warrior: Marvel is priming Mister Fantastic to be the new leader of the Avengers

The guy who treats collapsing timelines like a crossword puzzle has one extra superpower this time around: he’s played by Pedro Pascal

Cinemablend

Ahead Of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, I Have One H.E.R.B.I.E.-Related Request

Let's give it up for the Fantastic Four's robotic pal.

BANG Premier

Matt Shakman addresses Star Trek 4: ‘It changed dramatically’

Before he exited the project in August 2022 to focus on The Fantastic Four: First Steps, director Matt Shakman found the fourth Star Trek movie had "changed dramatically".

Total Film

Fantastic Four director tried to replicate a "Spider-Man quality" with Reed Richards' stretching to make it more "dynamic" onscreen: "It's easier to do in comic books"

Exclusive: Matt Shakman says Mister Fantastic's stretching was also inspired by Marvel and DC artist Alex Ross in The Fantastic Four: First Steps – and that it was "challenging" to bring to life

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