The Flash (2023)

I previously saw Ezra Miller as Barry Allen/The Flash in "Justice League" and thought he wasn't right for the role, so I started out with zero expectations here, but the movie actually turned out to be one of the best DC things in a long time. Secure direction (by Argentine Andy Muschetti), good script, great special effects, impressive sets as well as lots of humor, inside jokes, a great super villain (Michael Shannon as General Zod), and familiar faced surprise cameos. A bigger role, however, is given to Michael Keaton, who once again portrays Batman, this time from another timeline that The Flash accidentally creates travelling back in time to save his mother from being murdered and his father from being wrongfully accused of it. Another pleasant surprise is the well-cast Sasha Calle as ... no, I won't reveal that, and please don't watch the trailer. I'll refrain from further spoiling, but as I said, it's a nice film, even if Miller doesn't look like the blond, crewcut Barry Allen that I know from the comics of my youth. He's a bit too different (though definitely not bad) in the role, and for me it was a bit like watching a James Bond movie with Roger Moore instead of Sean Connery.