‘The Flash’ movie review: Ezra Miller is one of DC’s only good actors

The superhero movie “The Flash” has been plagued by off-screen drama, from Ezra Miller’s erratic behavior that landed the star in court in Hawaii and Vermont in 2022, to the Warner Bros. shakeup in October 2022 that led to James Gunn and Peter Safran taking over the limping DC Studios.

Beneath all that rubble, though, is a solidly entertaining if predictable time-travel film that boasts something most DC movies sorely lack: a strong lead performance.

Think about it. Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill aren’t so much a Justice League as a petrified forest — attractive and wooden. The talented Miller, who is personally troublesome but very good, is DC’s much-needed answer to Tom Holland’s embraceable “Spider-Man.”

That is, if they’re even able to hire Miller again. For WB and DC that’s TBD.

And “The Flash,” which is being called “a reset” to the hot mess DC Extended Universe, shares a lot in common with Marvel’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” by featuring multiple Flashes and throwback nostalgia in spades.

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