Captain America Civil War: 11 Reasons It's Better Than Batman V Superman

You have to hand it to superhero movies this year: they're finally realising that if you're going to have supervillains threatening millions of lives, then you probably need to engage with the lives lost, rather than be flippant about collateral damage.

One of Batman V Superman's more interesting ideas relates to this, yet it ends up strangely bungled, as when Supes is finally called to answer for his behaviour, it largely revolves around him being framed for an attack in an African village...rather than the obvious and far more compelling destruction issue from his fight with Zod in Man of Steel.

Sadly the film just sort of leaps away from the issue after that point rather than using it to deepen Bruce Wayne's conviction, whereas Civil War entrenches itself in the debate, brought up by Secretary of State Ross early on and having reverberations throughout the entire film.

Some of the film's most effective exchanges include Vision riffing on the heightened presence of superheroes on Earth inviting more conflict, and a superb cameo from Alfre Woodward, where she confronts Tony Stark about the death of her son in Sokovia. It makes Stark's later actions and motives seem all the more plausible, and tackles an issue too-often ignored in superhero movies in a thoughtful and intelligent way.

BvS? Not so much, even though the idea was nice.