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Is James Gunn's new feature the best Man of Steel movie ever? Maybe not. But it's the Superman we could all use right now. How it stacks up against the rest.

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a systematic ranking of every "Superman" movie. With the release of James Gunn's "Superman," ostensibly beginning a new era in superhero movies (and in DC Comics superhero movies,

Gunn’s Superman owes a clear debt to Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s seminal graphic novel All-Star Superman. That fact was reinforced when IGN visited the Superman set in Summer 2024.

Man of Steel prompted a lot of incensed and opinionated responses when it premiered, but none of Snyder’s choices in the film drew as much ire as the decision to have Superman kill Michael Shannon’s General Zod during their Metropolis-destroying battle.

The next DCU movie is Craig Gillespie’s “Supergirl,” starring Milly Alcock (previously titled “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow”). The film directly adapts King and Evely’s 2021-2022 comic book adventure starring Kara Zor-El, who starts the book by getting drunk on a planet with a Red Sun (which takes away her powers) to celebrate her 21st birthday.

An A-lister makes an appearance in the new "Superman" movie, in reference to the hero's origin story.

James Gunn's "Superman" launches a revamped DC movie universe with a new Man of Steel. It works on both counts, thanks to star David Corenswet.