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July 25, 2025
At The Movies: The villains steal the show in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps'
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
Matt Shakman’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is the first Fantastic Four movie released by Marvel Studios.
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy '60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism.
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