The Fantastic Four: First Steps really is fantastic. Charming from start to finish, it’s a joyful mix of lively characters, amiable chemistry, retro-futuristic designs, and an earnest spirit that’s like a balm for a cynical soul.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2025

Nurturing yet motherly yet also the glue tenaciously holding the family together, Vanessa Kirby is a force of nature.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 31, 2025

Marvel builds a strong foundation for the future of the MCU with the most important family in comics. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2025

The first family's much-belated debut feels like a fine return to form for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

Fantastic Four was mesmerizing, suspenseful, powerful and ultra smart. It blew my expectations out of the water. Between the impeccable cast, incredible score and superb writing that is so good, within the first 15 minutes you want to see it again.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jul 30, 2025

I'm crying tears of joy because the cloud days are over and we have a real certified Galactus and Silver Surfer! The casting is perfect and true to form of the first family of Marvel.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jul 30, 2025

Despite some instances of underwhelming and rough CG visual effects, the film's method of embracing classic Marvel comic book storylines and the Jack Kirby style still provides certain flair and charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 29, 2025

Looks great and fun while it lasts but sort of evaporates from memory the second the credits roll.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 29, 2025

The 5th live-action adaptation of Marvel’s First Family still doesn’t live up to its name. As nifty as the retro visuals are, the world they inhabit doesn’t feel lived-in and the main characters appear one-dimensional.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2025

I liked The Fantastic Four: The First Steps. I think. Yeah. Well, maybe? It’s all rather hard to figure out when a movie manages to be made as inoffensively as possible as this one was.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Bright, peppy and fun, this fresh take on the Fantastic Four — helmed by WandaVision director Matt Shakman — mostly succeeds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 29, 2025

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is competent at best—a reboot with cosmic ambition that barely attains lift-off.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

It’s just a shame that the characters and their relationships feel underwritten and stiff, especially when the worldbuilding around them hints at something greater.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2025

It’s not perfect and might not cure audiences’ recent apathy towards Marvel, but it feels like a good step in the right direction.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 29, 2025

Marvel's "first family of superheroes" is (finally) served well by this charmingly retro, family focused adventure that centers on motherly love, teamwork, and optimism.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

It’s yet another middling entry in the post-Endgame tradition, a film that doesn’t launch the franchise headlong at the future so much as it glumly drags us toward it.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

In short, this handsomely mounted but stiff superhero tale is boring, sedate to the point of somnolence.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

First Steps isn't revolutionary, but it's a course correction. It chooses to focus on a single team, with a single conflict, in a single universe, and that makes it more accessible. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Towards the end, the film returns to its usual: convulsive action scenes, trips to space, a CGI festival, and an ending that is not only predictable, but also refuses to break the house rules... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

The journey into mystery includes discovery, and Shakman et al’s film seemingly finds its footing with ease. Blending tradition with reinvention, its specific perspective is indisputably marvelous.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 29, 2025