15 Best Performances In The DCEU (So Far)

9. Jurnee Smollett-Bell - Black Canary

Black Mask Birds of Prey
Warner Bros. Pictures

Birds of Prey has its issues, but it is still a very interesting and well-made superhero film and it has several of the DCEU's best performances in there too.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell's performance as Black Canary was one of the obvious highlights in this regard. She is a complete scene-stealer in every sense and sometimes threatens to steal the film away from Margot Robbie and Ewan McGregor, which is really saying something.

Endlessly charismatic yet also nuanced and sympathetic, Smollett-Bell is an utterly superb action heroine in this movie and easily one of the DCEU's finest performers so far. Hopefully she'll return in the future in spite of Birds of Prey's disappointing box office performance, for it would be a damn waste of a great performance if it was just a one-time deal.

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