As the villain who behaves like a tyrannical emperor, Julia renders one of his weakest performances, accentuating each and every syllable as if he were reciting a Shakespearean role of grand emotional range. It’s too bad, for this is the accomplished actor’s last film, and it is dedicated to him.

Isabelle Huppert stars as Nathalie, a middle-aged philosophy teacher who’s suddenly dumped by her longtime husband and forced to start all over again.

The 2018 blockbuster follows the MCU template in style and story, but it also introduces something new, a superhero saga where Black power is the subject behind and in front of the camera.

Treadwell is as much a flawed, charismatic dreamer as the protagonists Klaus Kinski played in Herzog’s features Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God.