The film’s important message is complicated by fundamental flaws.
Thunderbolts* comes by its unexpected tenderness honestly. In the latest installment of Marvel‘s never-ending superhero saga, the disaffected but charming Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) feels adrift, unfulfilled, and bored.
As her adoptive father Alexei “Red Guardian” Shostakov (David Harbour) observes, the light inside her has …