It advances the story and respects mythos of its comic book creations, yet isn’t averse to taking risks and moving it into bolder directions.
There’s too much going on: the Marvel Universe stuff, the WikiLeaks-ish paranoia stuff, the video game-ish CG visual effects stuff, the epic...
TIME Magazine April 3, 2014 The Winter Soldier is no labored treatise on political science; it fulfills all the expectations of a Marvel movie. But this time the danger doesn...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier injects new life into the Marvel movie universe and the superhero genre.
Independent March 28, 2014 From Scarlett Johansson’s wonderfully sultry femme fatale Black Widow to Robert Redford’s self-satisfied politician and Samuel L J...
Kudos to the Russos and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely for stepping outside the constraints of both the genre and the shared...
I had fun. But I could have had more.
The Winter Soldier cheerfully and efficiently does its job doing whatever Marvel movies are meant to do – make you look forward to the next on...
New York Post April 1, 2014 Deeply mediocre and ultra-predictable …
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' delivers the superhero movie goods, but it does so with a grin and a wink, and that seems more and more...
We not only get an edgier, more complex, more compelling storyline, we get the most badass 95-year-old the world has ever known.
Times (UK) January 4, 2015 Sometimes a film leaves you with a big, dumb grin on your face. The Marvel blockbuster Captain America: The Winter Soldier… is such an item.
The Guardian March 30, 2014 Those in search of eye-popping, cliff-hanging spectacle won’t be disappointed, but on a personal level (and post credits sequences aside...
Slant Magazine April 2, 2014 Despite one or two moments of Venture Brothers-worthy fancy, the film is as by-the-numbers as any this series has ever offered.
In this spectacularly entertaining sequel, Rogers is still running, jumping, and chucking his mighty shield like it’s 1945. But now he&r...
If we must endure yet another spring-summer cycle of comic book superheroes, this movie at least delivers the wham-bang goods (recycled though they...
The Guardian March 20, 2014 This sequel gives the flagging comic-book movie an adrenaline shot of relevance. You’ve got to hand it to them.
It remains a highlight of Marvel’s bid for big-screen dominance, as well as a canny meditation on the perils of overprotective governmen...
The Atlantic April 4, 2014 A movie that is, in the best sense of the word, a Marvel.
ScreenCrush March 20, 2014 This entry won’t win any new converts, but anyone already invested in this series is going to have a blast.
Takes the bold (for Marvel) step of reducing CGI spectacle to a relative minimum in favor of reviving the pleasures of hard-driving old-school...
Shockya.com April 2, 2014 The combination of spectacular stunts and characters with honest human qualities, makes 'The Winter Solider' more than a thrill, but also ...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier neatly and entertainingly puts into motion some big changes in the Marvel universe, while still sticking to its...
Fans of this franchise should expect more than a boilerplate action flick that brings absolutely nothing new to the genre.
Toronto Star April 3, 2014 The best kind of blockbuster comic-book movie, tweaking the brain while dazzling the eye.
Rolling Stone April 3, 2014 Powered by a dynamite Evans and a first-rate cast, this movie overcomes its plot holes and 3D too-muchness by making human frailty its pr...
Financial Times March 27, 2014 Robert Redford, laying aside Mr Liberal Sundance Nice Guy, lends sleek mischief to a dodgy Washington power-broker. Elsewhere, it’s the...
Vanity Fair March 24, 2014 The Winter Soldier isn’t overly existential, but the way it teases at those deeper questions allows Evans to give his performance a welc...
Marvel fans will be left writhing with pleasure.
The Dissolve April 1, 2014 […] The Winter Soldier smartly integrates a crisply orchestrated Marvel action movie with the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, which were pegg...
Chockfull of the breathless cliffhangers dictated by the genre, but equally rich in the quiet, tender character moments that made the first film un...
metro.co.uk March 28, 2014 A flair-free, CGI-action-packed sequel that solidly delivers regular set-pieces and punch-ups alongside a thoughtful script that tosses Homeland fa...
Irish Times March 28, 2014 For the most part, however, The Winter Soldier – though never as agreeably dusty as The First Avenger – tips its shield to older, less di...
Funny where it should be, exciting where it should be, smarter than it needs to be, and just plain fun.
RogerEbert.com April 3, 2014 "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is a very good movie, the rare film in this genre that serves as both entry point and continuation. For...
The signal-to-noise ratio on "The Winter Soldier" is all messed up, and the net effect is self-canceling. I enjoyed the movie while I was watc...
The Atlantic September 22, 2016 It knocks down a lot of the infrastructure the previous films had created, and it does so in a way that feels organic and refreshing for...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the first superhero film since the terrorist-inflected The Dark Knight that plugs you right into what&rsquo...
This film is unlikely to convert a non-Captain America lover into a fanatic but it’s assembled with sufficient skill that those who enjoy thi...
online.wsj.com April 3, 2014 What makes "The Winter Soldier" so enjoyable … and what will make it so profitable, is its emotional bandwidth-all the vivid, nuanced life lived by...
Daily Telegraph March 20, 2014 You can’t help but feel disappointment that a film with a relatively spicy premise becomes, in the end, so risk-averse.
The Guardian March 27, 2014 Thanks to Johansson, Jackson and Redford, this is all good fun. It’s a shame the weak link is the Captain himself.
A great international thriller, it engages the world at large yet stays focused as a sharp cast led by Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Mackie and...
Chicago Reader April 3, 2014 Unless you’re intimately familiar with the so-called Marvel universe (or you really love CG explosions), little of this will resonate.
New York Times April 3, 2014 Like many others of its type, [it] gets off to a kinetic start only to lose steam before blowing everything up.
"Captain America" is everything a big budget superhero film should be – except inspired.
Globe and Mail April 4, 2014 This is the first Marvel Studios movie since the original Iron Man that really stands on its own.
The Australian April 4, 2014 The fans won’t be disappointed by the lavish visual effects, the explosions and gun battles, all of which are the essential elements in this...
Fight scenes are tense, though occasionally it’s hard to tell who’s doing what to whom. But they have the bone-crunching crack of reali...
"The First Avenger" was a work of art, while "The Winter Soldier" is serviceable entertainment.
Detroit News April 4, 2014 In "Winter Soldier," amidst the chaos, our hero learns to be wary of the modern world. Welcome to the 21st century, Cap.
Beneath the expensive, computer-generated busyness of this second Captain America installment is a bracing, old-style conspiracy thriller made...
If Captain America: The Winter Soldier is indeed an augur of things to come during this special-effects-laden summer, maybe it won’t be such...
Chris Evans' welcome return to the superhero fold can’t save this sequel from feeling like an awkward franchise mid-point.
Boston Globe April 3, 2014 There’s darkness and confusion just under its comic-book surface.
Bounds along excitingly, keeping viewers guessing, launching some successful switcheroos and bringing real stakes to the game. The end results shou...
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has the usual overlong running time, the half-hearted feints in the direction of human feeling and the obliga...
The new movie is surprising. It’s rambunctious, funny, complex and engaging at the level of ideas.
