MONDELLO: Folks who fly or zip or wield magical spears, who turn things to dust, create energy grenades from dust, are good with mind control, wound healing, holograms - I mean, there are 10 of these superfolks.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Where we are - how (ph)? And two, she is going to have a lot more in the foreground this time. One, director Chloe Zhao has not lost the eye for rugged landscapes and Oscar-worthy sunrises that she brought to 'Nomadland' last year. MONDELLO: It's at about this point - and we are maybe three minutes in - that two things become clear. Their mission - to protect humankind from what look like alien rope-asaurus-es (ph). So how is it? Well, critic Bob Mondello's superpower is he can tell us.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Where most Marvel movies start at a gallop, this one starts with a crawl, as in paragraphs crawling up the screen Star Wars-style - talking Celestials from Olympia and Arishem and Deviants - a whole mythology to lay out before a triangular slab of a spaceship can show up on the shores of Mesopotamia 7,000 years ago. And it's directed by Chloe Zhao, who won two Oscars earlier this year for a film that couldn't be less like a Marvel movie. It tells a story that just barely connects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's got superheroes no one has ever met before on screen. The new Marvel movie 'Eternals' really is new.

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