Man of Steel (film) its true, lofty footing not when it displays Kal-El's extraordinary powers, but when it dramatizes Clark Kent's roiling humanity. The super part of "Man of Steel" is just okay, but the man part is super." In a review on Roger Ebert's website, Matt Zoller Seitz awarded the film three out of four stars, calling it an "astonishing movie" and praising the conflict between Clark and Zod. But he criticized the film for not having more personal and intimate moments between Clark and Lois. In 2014, "Empire" ranked "Man of Steel" the 286th greatest film ever made on their list of
Superhero film film in the "X-Men" series, and effectively rebooted the franchise. In 2014, Italian filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores directed a superhero-fantasy film titled "Il ragazzo invisibile", or "The Invisible Boy", which won the Young Audience Award at the 2015 European Film Awards. An "Avengers" sequel, titled "" was released in May 2015. Following the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, rival DC Comics also planned to make and produce their own shared film universe called the DC Extended Universe which began with the release of "Man of Steel"; a sequel titled "" was schedule for release in May 2016, though it was