Movie Reviews: Black Widow has two terrific leads and a barrel of laughs

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Movie Reviews: Black Widow has two terrific leads and a barrel of laughs

Black Widow is less a superhero than it is a spy flick.

Black Widow ****

The Marvel universe grows ever more complicated and self-referential with each passing film, but your correspondent is reliably informed that Black Widow (12A) is not an origins tale detailing how Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) received her superpowers, but an account of how she spent her time between the Avengers movies Civil War (2016) and Infinity War (2018). 

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