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The new Marvel blockbuster is a family affair

To a large degree, modern blockbuster moviemaking has depended on the appeasement of fans to keep franchise juggernauts smoothly humming. But in making “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Taika Waititi had no interest in that. He approached the film from the opposite direction. What would actually make fans angry? “I wanted…

The last full Thor movie was the overstuffed 2017 “Thor: Ragnarok,” with the God of Thunder dealing with dueling brother and sister issues, the imminent destruction of his planet, a boozy sidekick, a huge dog, pal Hulk having a panic attack and the death of his father. It was Taika…

Rita Ora wowed her fans after donning a beaded see-through dress alongside beau Taika Waititi at London's Thor: Love & Thunder premiere

Twenty-nine films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — a playful and flexible narrative arena in theory, too often a realm of granite solemnity in practice — if you can’t mess around a little then really: Why make all that money in the first place?

At 29 films in, it felt like too much work to enter the MCU – but Chris Hemsworth’s latest outing as Thor turned out to be great fun

Only a few superhero franchises have made it to a fourth movie, and you can usually sum up how bad they are in less than a sentence each: George Clooney's bat-nipples in "Batman and Robin" (1997), Nuclear Man fighting Superman on the moon in "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"…

Lightning strikes twice in “Thor: Love and Thunder” — thanks to Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson.

There are a few good things worth singling out in the otherwise not-very-good thing that is "Thor: Love and Thunder." First up are two large screaming goats, whose digitally amplified screeches are a comic gift that rarely stops giving. Christian Bale delivers a genuinely skin-crawling turn as a zombified villain…