Consider Fox, which, somewhat confusingly, owns the rights to the X-Men and related Marvel superheroes. No Marvel movie has a Rotten Tomatoes score of less than 66 percent; the top nine films have all scored 89 or better. Yet “Black Panther” also suggests the inherent limitations of Marvel’s model. To be clear, “Black Panther” is a better-than-average Marvel film. But it’s less a Ryan Coogler movie made under Marvel than a Marvel movie made by Ryan Coogler.

Source: New York Times April 29, 2018 21:00 UTC