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Movie Name: Supergirl
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Milly Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, Jason Momoa
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Release Date: June 26, 2026
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Languages: English
Production House: DC Studios / Troll Court Entertainment / The Safran Company
Budget: $- million
Kara Zor-El celebrates her 23rd birthday by travelling across the galaxy with her dog Krypto. Along the way, she meets the young Ruthye Marye Knoll and encounters a tragedy that leads her on a “murderous quest for revenge”.
Supergirl: Movie Overview
Supergirl is an upcoming American superhero film based on the eponymous character from DC Comics. Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Ana Nogueira, it will be the second film in the DC Universe (DCU). Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl, alongside Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, and Jason Momoa. In the film, Supergirl travels across the galaxy on a murderous quest for revenge. It is produced by James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios.
A film featuring Supergirl entered development as part of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise in August 2018, and the character was introduced in the 2023 film The Flash, portrayed by Sasha Calle. Plans for the standalone project were altered when Gunn and Safran became co-CEOs of DC Studios in October 2022. A new Supergirl film was announced in January 2023 as an adaptation of the 2021–22 comic book miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. Nogueira was hired by November 2023; Alcock was cast in January 2024 to debut in the first DCU film, Superman (2025); and Gillespie joined that May. Filming took place from January to May 2025 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and London in England, and in Scotland.
Supergirl is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on June 26, 2026. It will be part of the DCU’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.
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Movie Review:
Milly Alcock brings heart, hurt and humanity to a terrific Supergirl
Story:
Kara Zor-El, a.k.a. Supergirl (Milly Alcock), reluctantly teams up with a young girl on a quest for vengeance against the mercenary who killed her family.
Review:
Superhero fatigue has been setting in for quite some time now, with both Marvel and DC struggling to find the right footing. In the race for bigger spectacles, sprawling multiverses, time travel, and interconnected sagas, many superhero films traded genuine emotion and character for sheer scale and experimentation. Audiences, understandably, began to lose interest.
James Gunn rebooted the DC Universe with Superman (2025), introducing the dimpled David Corenswet as the new Man of Steel. While the film dazzled with its scale and visual ambition, it often felt emotionally scattered and underwhelming. What lingered long after the credits, however, were the brief but memorable glimpses of Milly Alcock’s carefree, rebellious Supergirl.
Supergirl finally tells Kara Zor-El’s story, through an interplanetary adventure and it is refreshingly straightforward. The plot isn’t needlessly convoluted. The filmmakers don’t attempt to juggle ten different storylines or set up future films at every turn. There is no world-ending threat, no obligatory romance, and no heroine designed to cater to the male gaze. Kara is consumed by something far more profound, the grief of losing her home, her family, and everything she once knew.
Unlike Superman, who arrived on Earth as a baby and was raised in a loving environment, Kara witnessed Krypton’s collapse firsthand. She endured the suffering, loss, and destruction. She wasn’t granted the luxury of innocence. From that trauma emerges a version of Supergirl who lacks her cousin’s boundless optimism and idealism. She is emotionally lost, drifting through life on autopilot, masking her pain with recklessness and a perpetually hungover indifference to the world around her.
The only being she seems to care about is her dog, Krypto. But when a young girl named Ruthye (Eve Ridley) loses her parents in a brutal attack, Kara finds herself reluctantly drawn into another person’s grief. The two team up to hunt down Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts), a ruthless human trafficker and leader of the space pirate gang known as the Brigands, who is responsible not only for Ruthye’s tragedy but also for harming Krypto. Jason Momoa makes a brief but entertaining appearance as the bounty hunter Lobo.
On the surface, Supergirl is a fairly conventional revenge story. A young girl seeks justice for her murdered family, while a wounded hero pursues the man who hurt her beloved dog. Yet what elevates the film is its bruised but spirited heart and its moving exploration of daughter-parent bond.
Director Craig Gillespie and writer Ana Nogueira craft a brisk, entertaining space adventure that never loses sight of its emotional core. Beneath the action lies a story about grief, loneliness, displacement, and the search for belonging. In many ways, Supergirl succeeds in delivering the emotional resonance that Superman strained to achieve.
The action sequences are thrilling and confidently staged. More importantly, the film never feels like it’s pandering. The creators commit fully to their vision of Kara and allow her to exist as a flawed, messy, deeply human character. The result is a superhero film that balances spectacle with a distinctly feminine empathy that gives the story warmth without compromising its edge.
Most importantly, Supergirl feels like her own person. She isn’t a reflection of her celebrated cousin’s legacy. She is shaped by her own scars, her own losses, and her own choices. In a world constantly telling women who they should be and how they should look, Kara finds comfort simply in existing on her own terms.
Milly Alcock is superb as an emotionally numb drifter masking deep-seated grief with impulsive behaviour and an almost permanent sense of exhaustion. She channels Kara’s dormant rage and lingering heartbreak with remarkable conviction, making her the beating heart of the film. She internalizes the trauma of losing her childhood and being forced to grow up far too quickly. Beneath the unkempt hair, snarky humour and reckless bravado lies a young woman desperately searching for a sense of home, longing for the innocence and softness that life robbed her of too soon. David Corenswet returns as Superman in multiple scenes and is effortlessly charming, his hopeful energy serving as a perfect counterpoint to Kara’s emotional turmoil and cynicism. Eve Ridley is sincere as a sidekick. Matthias Schoenaerts brings commanding screen presence, but the character feels thinly sketched and underdeveloped for a central antagonist.
Supergirl is an engaging, heartfelt superhero adventure that may seem generic, even unambitious at first glance, but gradually reveals an emotional depth that stays with you. In a genre increasingly weighed down by spectacle and excess, it stands out by keeping things simple and human.
