The directors Anthony and Joe Russo's filming is clever, brisk, detailed, balanced, and—exactly when, over the two-hour mark, attention might flag—thoughtfully engaged. What it isn't is exhilarating or exciting; the filmmakers display their keen interest in the material and the characters, and that very interest inhibits the exceptional, the wondrous, the hyperbolic, the gratuitously sublime. "CA: CW" doesn't need more grandiosity but more grandeur.
Richard Brody
May 11, 2016