The $225 million-budgeted tentpole has the lofty ambition of relaunching the DC Universe after the last iteration of the comic book universe had flamed out with a string of costly bombs, including “The Flash,” “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” and “Blue Beetle.”

T here's a lot riding on James Gunn's Superman, both as a reboot of DC's movie universe and as the world's reintroduction to the Man of Steel. It's fitting, then, that its closest

Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet are the best Lois and Clark we've ever had, but the first movie in the DCU is too slight and scattered to feel like the start of something big.