Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) with the lesser-known freaks, oddities and grotesquerie of back-issue comics.

A terrific start for the new DC Studios,” wrote Fandango’s Erik Davis. Collider’s Perri Nemiroff offers: “The movie is loaded with exhilarating action set pieces and well-placed humor and levity.” Director James Gunn is behind Superman,