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The Flash’s meta-ness is its only trick, and its undoing
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Ezra Miller as two versions of Barry Allen and Michael Keaton as Batman. | Image: Warner Bros. Discovery
While the core conceit of Warner Bros. Discovery’s The Flash is solid, the movie’s too-meta nostalgia plays highlight everything that has gone awry with the studio’s superhero movie experiment.