James Gunn's "Superman" launches a revamped DC movie universe with a new Man of Steel. It works on both counts, thanks to star David Corenswet.

Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) with the lesser-known freaks, oddities and grotesquerie of back-issue comics.

Superman is now playing in theaters, but should you believe the hype about the DC Studios movie? Yes, because James Gunn has delivered a take on the Man of Steel that's everything fans could want and more.