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		</div><p>Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o has defended superhero films after some of the most venerated figures in cinema dismissed the genre.</p>
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<p>Marvel’s all-conquering cinematic universe has earned billions of dollars at the global box office and attracted millions of devoted fans.</p>
<p>However, the domination has led to a backlash.</p>
<p>Martin Scorsese said Marvel movies are “not cinema” while British director Ken Loach compared them to “commodities like hamburgers”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_142842" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-142842" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-142842" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BB8F3DE6-171A-45A6-8245-2CC5C0D2D726.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="836" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-142842" class="wp-caption-text">Lupita Nyong’o has defended Marvel films amid criticism from some of the biggest names in cinema</figcaption></figure>
<p>Francis Ford Coppola, the acclaimed director of classics including The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, was even more strident in his criticism and said Marvel films are “despicable”.</p>
<p>Kenyan-Mexican actress Nyong’o, who starred in Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther, defended the genre.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Bafta Britannia Awards in Los Angeles, she told the PA news agency: “I believe that it’s possible to be both a popular film and a meaningful film and I think Black Panther showed that.”</p>
<p>Nyong’o, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for 2013 period drama 12 Years A Slave, has just won further critical acclaim for her Channel 4 documentary Warrior Women.</p>
<p>The film saw Nyong’o travel to African country Benin to uncover the astonishing true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army.</p>
<p>The actress, who was born in Mexico and raised in Kenya, said the documentary was “very personal”.</p>
<p>“I’ve never done anything like it,” she said.</p>
<p>“I was super interested in going to Benin and having the chance to really meet the people and learn from the people about their history. And it moved me in ways I didn’t expect it to.</p>
<p>“And challenged me in ways I certainly wasn’t prepared for.”</p>
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