The Flash reviews are in! Many praise the ambitious visuals and controversial ... trends now
The first reviews for Warner Bros.' highly-anticipated The Flash are in, just 10 days before it hits theaters on June 16.
The film first screened in its entirety for press and exhibitors at CinemaCon in April, with another wave of press screenings happening on Monday.
The first reviews started surfacing on Tuesday, with the film currently at 73% on the critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
What's currently unclear if the press screenings contained The Flash's, 'secret ending' that the studio hopes to keep under wraps before it hits theaters.
The Flash's 73% is a vast improvement over the last two DC Extended Universe films - Black Adam (38%) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (49%).
Reviews: The first reviews for Warner Bros.' highly-anticipated The Flash are in, just 10 days before it hits theaters on June 16
Early reviews: The first reviews started surfacing on Tuesday, with the film currently at 73% on the critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
New DC Studios head James Gunn made headlines in February when he claimed The Flash was one of the 'greatest superhero movies ever,' a claim that some critics upheld and other contested.
Rolling Stone critic David Fear claimed, 'The Flash is, by far, the best movie to come out of this modern, post-Nolan Warners/DC collaboration,' meaning it was the best movie since Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy which ended in 2012.
Fear also praised the return of Michael Keaton as Batman/Bruce Wayne, reprising his role from 1989's Batman and 1992's Batman Returns.
'Keaton not only reprises his role wonderfully, he knows how to slot himself into this complicated narrative so that, oddly enough, he’s in line with what The Flash as a whole is trying to do,' he says.
The film is a loose adaptation of the iconic 2011 Flashpoint comic series, which ultimately lead into DC's New 52 reboot.
The story finds Ezra Miller's Barry Allen essentially using his powers from the Speed Force to actually go back in time and prevent the death of his mother (Maribel Verdu), which his father (Ron Livingston) was wrongly convicted for.
In doing so, he ultimately throws his universe into chaos and introduces the concept of the 'multi-verse,' which explains how Michael Keaton is one universe's Batman while Ben Affleck is still the Batman in Barry's original universe.
Uproxx's Mike Ryan mentions in his review that there have been several iterations of The Flash movie in development throughout the years, adding that the Flashpoint comics are 'too weird' to adapt straight-up.
Greatest ever: New DC Studios head James Gunn made headlines in February when he claimed The Flash was one of the 'greatest superhero movies ever,' a claim that some critics upheld and other contested
Ben is back: In doing so, he ultimately throws his universe into chaos and
