Florence Pugh leads a crew of scrappy misfits. It’s a familiar premise, “Suicide Squad” did the same thing, but here it works.

Thunderbolts* is no different. Bundling together a crew of misfits and anti-heroes from Marvel's past across film and television, the all-star crossover brings the likes of Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes into the same orbit as Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova for the first time.

The answer, of course, is that “Thunderbolts” has no more indie cred than “Avatar.” What it is, though, is the best Marvel movie in years. “Thunderbolts,” about a group of MCU rejects who band together after CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus ) tries to erase them and their covert program,