Brave New World to be a palate cleanser — one that remembers and builds on the events of Marvel’s other recent features. The film does a serviceable job of establishing a new status quo, but it struggles to articulate how this Captain America is different from his predecessor.

A heaving red brute froths and seethes behind a podium marked with the presidential seal before tearing through the Rose Garden and leaving a swath of wreckage through the White House. As he rips