Captain Marvel (2019)

Discovering who you really are can mean questioning everything you've been told. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's "Captain Marvel," set in the 1990s and the first Marvel film led by a female superhero, stars Brie Larson as Vers, an elite Kree warrior with no memory of her past, trained by her commander, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law), to control her powerful energy blasts. When a mission against the shape-shifting Skrulls goes wrong, she is captured and later crash-lands on Earth, smashing through the roof of a Blockbuster Video store. She teams up with a young S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), digitally de-aged and with both eyes, and begins to uncover the truth: she was once Carol Danvers, a U.S. Air Force pilot. The key lies with a mysterious scientist, Dr. Wendy Lawson (Annette Bening), and the Skrull leader, Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), may not be the villain he seems. With help from her best friend, Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), and a very unusual cat named Goose, Carol finds herself at the center of a galactic war - and learns who she's truly fighting for. The 1990s soundtrack and pop-culture references add plenty of fun. The film earned more than $1.1 billion worldwide and set up Carol's role in "Avengers: Endgame."