Critic Reviews for Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Moviebuff.com

The Winter Soldier is an enjoyable ride in isolation, but more so in the context of the greater Marvel universe

Ben Gourlay, TweakTown

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” exceeds expectations more than ever

Anthony Robert Schultz, Moviepilot.com

'The Winter Soldier' knows to show you a good time with cool cars, awesome stunts, rocking gadgets, buff men, gorgeous women and the hippest lines

Mini Anthikad Chhibber, The Hindu

The 'Winter Soldier' has as much brain as it has brawn

Paloma Sharma, Rediff

The finale is blockbuster spectacle of the highest order, one that will have you practically ready to leap into a standing ovation

Eric Walkuski, JoBlo.com

One thing wrong about the movie was all of the overpowered things that happen, nothing goes wrong for Captain America

Logan Reed, Moviepilot.com

It provides just the sort of spectacular optical, chemical, and digital effects that movie producers, viewers, and, alas, many reviewers mistake for cinema

George Grella, Rochester City Newspaper

Cap 2 is one of Marvel's best and sets the bar for all of the summer 2014 comic book movies to follow

Roth Cornet, IGN

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' is a spectacularly-made, tense, thrilling ride, and whether you go to the theater for the blockbuster action or the exciting story, you will leave more than satisfied

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

It is a superhero movie after all, and the ending is pretty super

Drew Taylor, The Moviefone Blog

'Captain America' sequel wallops most other comics movies

Carla Meyer, The Sacramento Bee

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' is a great action movie - an immensely enjoyable spy-thriller-flavored film with Bond-worthy flair

Michael Burgin, Paste Magazine

'Winter Soldier' adds other semi-fresh elements to the Marvel mix

Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

A stellar addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Juhi Matta, BookMyShow

The 'Winter Soldier' isn't the worst chapter in Marvel's series, but it's certainly the most disappointing

Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

The film is possibly one of Marvel's best, and definitely the best sequel in the combined universe

Andre Borges, DNA

It delivers enough bang for your buck, and then some

Rajeev Masand, BookMyShow

With 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', Marvel has won a rebirth trifecta

Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

What works here is setting up Captain America in a battle against America

Owen Gleiberman, CNN

It is worth noting that 'Winter Soldier' features some of the genre's best fight scenes in recent memory

Jason Y Ng, South China Morning Post

This ranks among the finest in the superhero genre

Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, The Times of India

Powered by a dynamite Evans and a first-rate cast, this movie overcomes its plot holes and 3D too-muchness by making human frailty its primary focus

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

This is a film about trust that falters most because it doesn’t trust its audience

Scott Mendelson, Forbes

Marvel has not only proven yet again that there is no template for their movies, but also that there’s no template for good superhero movies

Matt Goldberg, Collider

It looks better than the usual fare and will hopefully get other superhero movies looking at least a little outside the box

Peter Lampasona, MMA Mania

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' maybe the most grown-up Avengers movie yet

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

The action scenes feel immediate and alive in ways that CGI heroes flying about dodging CGI baddies simply can’t

Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects

Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Robert Redford keep this second outing fun, but the weak link is out front

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

'The Winter Soldier' is the best Marvel film since 'The Avengers'

AA Dowd, AV Club

Evans doesn’t embarrass himself, but he comes up a bit short in the charisma department, but you could almost describe his Captain America as retiring

Bill Wine, CBS Local

There is a lot of action and all of it is well put together, from the choreography to sound editing

Nick Hamden, Iowa State Daily

This is the first of many superhero films that will appeal to those who aren't already besotted by the comics and the characters

Raja Sen, Rediff

There's a stealth element of hypocrisy in a film like 'The Winter Soldier', which bemoans America's bloodthirsty, weapons-mad impulses even as it exploits all the hardware and an obscene body count for fun and profit

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

A less super Marvel player steps up

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson shine as Marvel superhero flick brings thriller to a new generation

Joe Neumaier, Daily News America

Fans should be more than satisfied that it both delivers the goods and helps set up the next blockbuster team-up

Rick Mele, The Moviefone Blog

Tower of innocence Steve Rogers battles Hydra-headed enemies both foreign and domestic in a sharp political parable that also delivers the requisite testosterone thrills

Richard Corliss, Time.com

Suffused with a realism rarely seen in comic-book movies, the Captain America sequel revives the flagging superhero genre

Steve Rose, The Guardian

An impressive film and one of the best that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has to offer

Jimmy O , JoBlo.com

Marvel has done an incredible job expanding their cinematic universe with each, new movie, building the characters right along with the world in which they inhabit

Jeremy Kirk, First Showing

The perils of global diplomacy, and the difficulty of being an old-fashioned guy in a new-fashioned world, weigh heavily on Marvel's defrosted superhero in his surprisingly equal second solo outing

Scott Foundas, Variety

Let’s hope that Marvel Studios can keep up with good work

Van Roberts, The Packet

'Captain America' has become a more likable hero and the film provides some much-needed development for Black Widow and Nick Fury

Bob Garver, High Country Press

The best thing 'Winter Soldier' has going for it is its cast, a uniformly likable bunch

Jake Coyle, Yahoo News

It dazzles the eye, keeps you on the edge of your seat and doesn't tax your brain a lot

Jyoti Sharma Bawa, Hindustan Times

There's no getting around the fact that Captain America is as dull as Batman when it comes to combat

Mick LaSalle, SFGate

This is the most fun I've had at one of these Marvel movies since the first 'Captain America' movie

Odie Henderson, Roger Ebert

This is what being a real superhero is all about: taking risks and watching them pay off

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

'The Winter Soldier' becomes progressively less enjoyable once the plot thickens and a menace looms

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' reaches that rare achievement of franchise films: a sequel that surpasses the original

Dan O Leary, Tufts Daily

The film’s thundering centrepiece, a mass shoot-out in broad daylight, borrows heavily from Michael Mann’s Heat, which is fun in the moment, but an untidy fit

Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

This is more than what anyone expected, its funny, its intense, its mysterious but most of all, its a very well made and entertaining movie

James Porter, Moviepilot.com