The premise is intriguing, but this gruesome origin story plays like just another slasher film with idiots for victims.

David Yarovesky's hard-R supervillain story is passable as violent schlock, but misses its chance to find real depth.

Elizabeth Banks plays Tori, who becomes the adoptive mother of the baby boy she and her husband found aboard the spaceship that crash-landed on their propert...

A familiar origin story turns dark in a superhero horror. Read the Empire review.

Director David Yarovesky's new movie 'Brightburn' puts a bad-seed twist on a familiar premise.

The plot becomes endearingly daft in this story of a young anti-superhero

An adolescent boy discovers he has superpowers in 'Brightburn,' a James Gunn-produced horror movie variation on the superhero origin genre.

Its twisted take on Superman’s origin story dabbles in our modern obsession with superheroes, but all we get are stray thoughts instead of a fully formed...

What if Superman was a bad seed?

James Gunn produced the twisted horror film — written by two of his own family members — and the superhero scarefest could use more of his wit.

An red-eyed alien kid arrives with plans to destroy earth in 'Brightburn.'

Review: This is a rare instance where we’d like to see the original theatrical release

What must Thanksgiving dinners in the Gunn family be like?

A bad seed crash-lands to earth in this darkly entertaining riff on the Superman legend.

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A superhero only a mother could love, with Elizabeth Banks as his mother.

‘Brightburn’ fails to meet the most basic requirements of the two genres it is trying to meld.

Even if you go to see Brightburn knowing that it doesn't have much going for it beyond a few disturbing kill scenes you will still be disappointed.

We’re still in Kansas, Dorothy. But with “Brightburn,” we’re not in Smallville any more. It’s a twisted take on the “Superman” origin myth, an ...

'Brightburn' asks: What if the tween Superman didn't care about truth, justice or the American way — just bloody revenge? Our review.

James Gunn one-ups Synder’s vision of superheroes as potential tyrants

A clever premise and some gory scares turns the origin of the Man of Steel into a terrifying horror movie.

Brutal and bludgeoning, David Yarovesky's Brightburn is a film designed to knock the breath from your chest and subvert expectations. An alien infant crash-l...

The film is content to merely shock, a trick that grows increasingly tiring as the film drags itself to the inevitable showdown between mother and son

An origin-of-evil story cribbed from a famed superhero's mythos amounts to little more than a collection of uninspired horror tropes

A 'bad seed' arrives from outer space in this pedestrian mix of superhero and evil-child-horror conventions.

But Elizabeth Banks is, as usual, very good and un-gimmicky.

Brightburn doesn't ask if you want blood, but you've damn-well got it in this nastily gruesome superhero hack-n-slash nightmare for parents everywhere.