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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 19 Jul 2011

You are not in for a giddy, winking, high-flying summer fling. And that's OK -- there's something appealing about such an old-fashioned approach…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 19 Jul 2011

Captain America is exactly what the third week of July needed: a curiously fun, surprisingly imaginative and unashamedly old-fashioned yarn…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 19 Jul 2011

Sticking to its simplistic, patriotic origins, where a muscular red, white and blue GI slugging Adolf Hitler in the jaw is all that's required,…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 19 Jul 2011

A rollicking old-fashioned adventure story - two fisted, over the top and filled with retro scifi flair…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Jul 2011

Tommy Lee Jones provides wisecracking levity as Rogers's commanding officer, Hayley Atwell supplies the aforementioned buxom chest and accompanying…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 19 Jul 2011

Evans – always a reliably dynamic and vivacious screen presence – can't do much to bring the character to life…

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By Thomas Leupp (166) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 19 Jul 2011

Unambiguously embraces its hero's old-fashioned sensibilities, and invites us to embrace them as well…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 19 Jul 2011

As Marvel heroes go, Captain America must be the most vanilla of the lot…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 19 Jul 2011

The perfect casting of Evans as well as the original approach to the action ultimately makes up for some of the annoying changes from the source…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Screen Junkies (147) on 19 Jul 2011

A fun origin story in the Spider-Man model. It's got the heart of an underdog really experiencing the wonder of his new powers…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 19 Jul 2011

The details in Captain America deliver, but the big moments fall flat - you can tell that we're intended to cheer here, to weep there, but…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 19 Jul 2011

Captain America succeeds grandly where the others failed…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for MSN Movies (470) on 19 Jul 2011

Captain America is not high art, but it is so unabashedly fun -- and such well-made fun -- that it is hard to not like and admire it for so…

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By Phil Pirrello (9) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 19 Jul 2011

Captain America: The First Avenger neither commits any terrible storytelling offenses nor takes any significant creative risks…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 19 Jul 2011

What really distinguishes Captain from the other superhero movies of 2011 (and quite frankly, the majority of the others released in the last…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 19 Jul 2011

Feels less like an exciting comic-book-hero movie than required reading for a course called The Avengers, arriving in theaters next summer…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Jul 2011

Not as good as the first Iron Man, not as bad as Green Lantern, it's almost a necessary, even obligatory panel toward next year's Avengers,…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 19 Jul 2011

The least inspired and engaging entry in the summer's superhero onslaught…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 19 Jul 2011

The picture is nothing, really, that you haven't seen before, but it's the definition of a square, competent, deliver-the-goods blockbuster…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jul 2011

(A) hokey, hacky, two-hour-plus exercise in franchise transition/price gouging, complete with utterly unnecessary post-converted 3-D…

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