Ranking the 5 Best Female-Led Superhero Movies, from 'Supergirl' to Today
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Jesse Hassenger
Summary
A retrospective analysis of female-led superhero movies, using the 1984 'Supergirl' film as a starting point to rank and discuss the top 5 best female-led superhero films of all time. The article examines Supergirl's pioneering but flawed legacy, then compares it against modern entries in the genre, evaluating their cultural impact, critical reception, and box office performance.
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· 4 pulledSupergirl has always been an unlikely pioneer.
While Superman's cousin and fellow refugee from the planet Krypton was not the first female superhero, she was the first DC or Marvel superhero to get her own movie, back in 1984.
Unfortunately, the film was pretty ill-regarded — though if we're being real, it's not any worse than the Superman sequels of its day, and is actually considerably more charming in some ways.
The movie was a box office bomb, and superheroes movies were so scarce for the next 20 years that even fewer of them were
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