Superman is back – in a big way – in MAN OF STEEL, written by David Goyer (BATMAN BEGINS and BLADE) and directed by Zack Snyder (300, WATCHMEN, and LEGENDS OF THE GUADIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE). Super-smart, super-exciting and super-rewarding, MAN OF STEEL is one of the most satisfying, most redemptive, and most moving superhero movies made yet. It even includes some overt Christian content. There is some foul language and intense action violence, however.

Like the first huge Superman movie in the late 1970s, MAN OF STEEL begins on the planet Krypton. Superman’s father, Jor-El, is helping Superman’s mother give birth to little Kal-El, aka Clark Kent aka Superman. It’s...