Will Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson have such a run? Captain America: Brave New World opened in theaters on Friday. After all the violent confrontations with Giancarlo Esposito's Sidewinder, Tim Blake Nelson's Samuel Sterns,

Brave New World. Captain America: Brave New World is nominally a political thriller in which the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie, taking over the role from a retired Chris Evans) must uncover a conspiracy to mind-control soldiers and embarrass the newly named President of the United States,

Mackie's slyly dogged Captain America has less superpower than his predecessor, and so does this movie. But it does wriggle out of superhero fatigue.