But what distinguishes “Blue Beetle” isn’t its place in the bug brigade but the person doing the metamorphosizing. Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) is the first Latino superhero in a leading ro ...

Fast, funny, and fervently earnest, Blue Beetle stands out in an increasingly overcrowded field of superhero movies ... The famous Bug Ship, too, reads as fully functional and practically made ...

From the get-go, Puerto Rican director Àngel Manuel Soto understood the responsibility and pride of making history with "Blue Beetle" (in theaters Friday), DC's first Latino-led superhero movie.

But what distinguishes "Blue Beetle” isn't its place in the bug brigade but the person doing the metamorphosizing. Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) is the first Latino superhero in a leading role ...