ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Looking at the online review score for Captain Marvel one could be forgiven for thinking it’s one of the worst movies ever made.
This is despite the fact that it has not released yet and its advance ticket sales are the strongest in the Marvel Comic Universe history, behind only Black Panther and Infinity War.
Digging a little deeper into the reviews reveals the reason for the movie’s already terrible reputation on Rotten Tomatoes’ audience score charts.
It all goes back to the moment Captain Marvel star Brie Larson, accepting the final statuette at the Crystal + Lucy Awards, chose to devote her stage time to speak about the lack of representation among film critics.
Speaking about the fact that 63.9% of all movie critics are white males, Larson said: “[Audiences] are not allowed enough chances to read public discourse on these films by the people that the films were made for. I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about ‘[A] Wrinkle in Time.’ It wasn’t made for him. I want to know what it meant to women of colour, to biracial women, to teen women of colour, to teens that are biracial.”
