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James Gunn’s Superman is a curious film: so earnest, so heartfelt, and so defiantly weird it sometimes feels less like a reboot of the world’s most iconic superhero and more like an elaborate fan project. Most of us will be relieved we’ve said goodbye to the heavy metal space Jesus of the Zack Snyder years, and that Gunn has avoided …

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an inane culture war! The new Superman film, released over the weekend, turned, predictably enough, into a partisan issue. Director James Gunn started things off on July 4—of all days—by reminding us in an interview that Superman is “an immigrant,” albeit one who arrived from outer space. You’ll never guess what happened next: …