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Avengers: Endgame

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' action... Read all After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.

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• Trivia When Avengers: Endgame (2019) passed Titanic (1997) 's box office total, James Cameron sent a congratulatory message to Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios on dethroning his film - with a photo of the Avengers 'A' being the iceberg that sinks the Titanic.
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Natasha Romanoff : If we don't get that stone, billions of people stay dead.

Clint Barton : Then I guess we both know who it's got to be.

Natasha Romanoff : I guess we do.

Clint Barton : I'm starting to think we mean different people here, Natasha.

Natasha Romanoff : For the last five years I've been trying to do one thing, get to right here. That's all it's been about. Bringing everybody back.

Clint Barton : Oh, don't you get all decent on me now.

Natasha Romanoff : What, you think I want to do it? I'm trying to save *your* life, you idiot.

Clint Barton : Yeah, well, I don't want you to, how's that? Natasha, you know what I've done. You know what I've become.

Natasha Romanoff : Well, I don't judge people on their worst mistakes.

Clint Barton : Maybe you should.

Natasha Romanoff : You didn't.

Clint Barton : You're a pain in my ass, you know that?

[they lean their heads together affectionately]

Clint Barton : Okay. You win.

Clint Barton : [he suddenly throws her down] Tell my family I love them.

Natasha Romanoff : [she pushes him off and tasers him] Tell them yourself.

• Crazy credits When the Marvel logo appears at the end of the closing credits, the sound of a hammer hitting metal can be heard several times (this is the sound of Tony Stark forging his suit in Iron Man (2008) , setting in motion the Marvel Cinematic Universe).
• Alternate versions In India, all profanity has been muted from the film and the subtitles.
• Connections Edited from The Avengers (2012)
• Soundtracks Dear Mr. Fantasy Written by Steve Winwood , Jim Capaldi , and Chris Wood Performed by Traffic Courtesy of Island Records Ltd. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Review: The MCU’s Long Goodbye Is an Emotional Wipeout

By Peter Travers

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Thanos demands my silence. So if you expect a lot of specific “who lives, who dies” spoilers in this review, snap out of it. However, it is fair to say that Avengers: Endgame, directed by the Russo brothers — Anthony and Joseph — with a fan’s reverence for all that came before, is truly epic and thunderously exciting. You probably won’t care that at three hours, it’s bloated, uneven and all over the place, flitting from character to character like a bird that doesn’t know where to land. And yet the movie hits you like a shot in the heart, providing a satisfying closure even when its hard to believe that Marvel will ever really kill a franchise that’s amassed $19 billion at the global box office. Of the 22 films in the MCU that began in 2008 with Iron Man, Endgame is the most personal yet — an emotional wipeout that knows intimacy is its real superpower.

Avengers: Endgame and the State of the Modern Superhero

With 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War as our source, what we grasp going in is that Thanos (a superb Josh Brolin giving tragic dimension to a CGI villain) has decimated half of all living creatures in the universe. Only six of the original Avengers remain: Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ), Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ), Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Steve Rogers/Captain America ( Chris Evans ) and Bruce Banner/Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo ). Also in play are James Rhodes/War Machine ( Don Cheadle ), Rocket the space raccoon (hilariously growled by Bradley Cooper), Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) and Nebula (the sublime Karen Gillan), the supervillain’s reformed blue-meanie daughter. Their mission impossible, and there’s no question that they’ll choose to accept it, is to avenge the dead by destroying Thanos, bring back the six Infinity Stones that hold the key to ultimate control and just maybe find a way to restore a semblance of order.

With Infinity War, the Russos left audiences with their mouths open in shock as beloved characters were reduced to dust and evil emerged triumphant. Who does that? With Endgame, from an original script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the filmmakers take you places you can’t possibly see coming regarding who dies and who lives to tell their story. Don’t expect a typical happy ending. Just prepare to be wowed.

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For a movie bursting with action and culminating in a one-for-the-time capsule showdown, Endgame starts on a quietly reflective note. No Avenger is left unbroken by the devastation that ensued when Thanos snapped his fingers and half the world turned to dust. (Some mild plot spoilers ahead.) The movie jumps ahead five years after that moment, with our superheroes are empty shells forced to reflect on their failures. Tragedy has set Hawkeye adrift. Iron Man has retreated into the cocoon of family life with wife Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). Thor has lost his home on Asgard. Hulk has learned to subdue his baser instincts. And Black Widow wonders if any sense can be made of it all. That’s when Ant-Man (Paul Rudd, amiable as ever) shows up, fresh from the Quantum Realm, with an idea for a “time heist.” You don’t have to make jokes about the clichéd time travel plot — the film is ready, willing and able to make its own, with Back to the Future coming in for a serious ribbing.

The Russos make sure there are lots of intentional giggles, especially when Cap is told that his uniform “does nothing for your ass” or Thor lards up with bellyfat or Hulk just stands there like a big green machine. Cheers to Ruffalo and Hemsworth for getting the most laughs without sacrificing character. Downey lowers Stark’s snark quotient to create something genuinely moving. His young daughter measures her devotion to him in multiples. “I love you 3000,” she says. Fans will surely feel the same.

Audiences affection for these Avengers carries the film over its rough spots. Some characters get their due (let’s hear it for the the women of Wakanda!) , while others stay on the outside looking in. A few supporting characters who show up for the big third-act battle have big moments that feel unearned. Also, it seems like Endgame has at least six endings, when the first one handily gets the job done.

Still, this long goodbye gets to you. It’s not an ardent and artful game-changer like Black Panther ; there probably isn’t a Best Picture Oscar nomination in its future. So what? You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll thrill to the action fireworks. You’ll love it 3000. And not for a minute will you believe it’s really a farewell.

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Anthony and joe russo narrate a sequence from their film featuring chris hemsworth..

“Hi, I’m Anthony Russo.” “And I’m Joe Russo.” “And we are the directors of ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ This is a scene that happens relatively early in the film where we are catching back up with our characters after a five-year time elapse once they have definitively lost to Thanos— after he’s eradicated half of all life. Everyone’s taking that occurrence badly, of course, but some are taking it worse than others. Thor blames himself for the loss in many ways. And he’s basically masking it. He’s hiding in things like alcohol, and food, and video games, and TV. And he’s cloistered himself in this cabin here, and he’s very much hiding from the pain that he can’t face.” “Boys! Oh, my God! Oh, my God, so good to see you! Come here, cuddly little rascal. [GRUNTS] “Yeah, no, I’m good. I’m good.” “I think why this is one of our favorite scenes in the movie is this is an exceptional performance from Hemsworth. One of the hardest tones to play as an actor is to play both pathos and humor, and he does it with such a delicate touch in this scene. You really have to commit to stakes, you have to commit to emotional truth in order for the performance not to get ridiculous. That’s why it’s so difficult, because it can go absurd on you very quickly. And he does it. He grounds it. And this is right around the section where he starts to ground the performance.” “And he’s grounding it, of course, surrounded by a bunch of CG actors, which is doubly hard to pull off.” “And while wearing a 30-pound body suit.” “Yeah. And Joe and I, as filmmakers, we love to play with tone. We like very complicated tones. And this scene, I think, is really juicy for us because it starts from such a silly, absurd, frivolous place in terms of how Thor is hiding, what kind of behavior he’s adopted to get away from the pain.” “So what’s up? You’re just here for a hang or what?” “We need your help. There might be a chance we could fix everything.” “Well, like the cable? Because that’s been driving me bananas for weeks.” “Like Thanos.” “And this is a moment right here where, in a single moment, when Hulk says ‘Thanos,’ you see Chris Hemsworth reveals to us the pain that he’s been masking.” “He’s a tragically haunted man. And the tone shifts there very, very delicately.” [SOMBER MUSIC] “Don’t say that name.” “Even Korg shifts tone and becomes part of the conversation in this moment.” “The scene has a wonderful shape to it in the sense that we start from a place of lightness. It moves to a place of real darkness. And then at the end, there’s some kind of bizarre reconciliation of the two.” “Why would I be? Why would I be scared of that guy? I’m the one who killed that guy, remember? Anyone else here killed that guy?” “To get a peek into the window of how we would shoot a scene like this. So we didn’t have Taika on set that day, so there’s a motion capture actor playing Korg. We voiced Taika later. Ruffalo’s on set wearing, basically, the equivalent of pajamas which are a motion capture suit. And we have him on a platform so he can move around at the height he needs to move around at so he can have eye contact with Hemsworth. And when Hulk touches Hemsworth, we just replaced that with a Hulk hand instead of Ruffalo’s hand. And then we have— James Gunn’s brother plays Rocket on set. He’s crawling around on the ground on his knees so that he can also be at the same height as Rocket. So it’s very complicated to pull off a scene like this, and then to add in these difficulty-in-tone complexity of performance for Hemsworth, and this is about as a high degree of difficulty as it gets for an actor.” “You also notice the room— for as funny as this scene is, the room is very moody and dark. I think that really speaks to the fact that there’s a duality going on in this scene, and that ultimately, the story lies in Thor’s pain. And that that’s really what we’re moving here through on a story level here, and what this character is trying to push through. You’ll notice that the screen is blurred, and that’s because of some obscure rights issue. ‘Fortnite’ is actually playing on that screen, but for some reason in this clip, we can’t play it.”

By A.O. Scott

• April 23, 2019

“No amount of money ever bought a second of time,” one character says to another — I’m afraid I can’t be any more specific than that — somewhere around the middle of “Avengers: Endgame.” So true, so true, and also in context so completely not true. The intersecting axes of time and money are what this franchise is all about, and while I’m not an expert in studio math, I’d guess that a second of the movie, based on what Disney and Marvel Studios paid to make it, would buy a decent used car.

There are roughly 10,860 of those — seconds, not cars — nestled in between the quiet, spooky opening and the last bit of end credits. Which means that whatever a ticket costs in your neighborhood, “Avengers: Endgame” might count as a bargain. At three hours and one minute, it’s shorter than “Titanic,” “The Godfather Part II” or Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard.” And while the time doesn’t exactly fly, it doesn’t drag either. The two hours and forty minutes of “Infinity War” (also directed by Joe and Anthony Russo ) felt infinitely longer. Settling scores, wrapping up loose ends and taking a victory lap — the main objects of the game this ostensibly last time around — generate some comic sparks as well as a few honest tears.

And why not? We’ve lived with these characters and the actors playing them for more than a decade, and even when the party got hectic, stupid or crowded, there was no reason to complain about the guests. For the most part, it’s nice to see them again, and a little sad to say goodbye.

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Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, always kind of neurotic for a buff deity with a mighty hammer, has let himself go, turning into a fat Lebowski with mommy issues. War Machine (Don Cheadle), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) have more to do than previously. (I wish that were also true of Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie.) The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) has made peace with his essential duality. Robert Downey Jr., looking handsomely grizzled, exercises his seniority with a light touch. He’s been around the longest — the first “Iron Man” was in 2008 — and combines the duties of unofficial chief superhero with those of master of ceremonies.

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Reviews: What the Critics Are Saying

By Jordan Moreau

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It’s been a long year for Marvel fans since the release of “ Avengers: Infinity War ,” but the wait is nearly over. The finale to the Infinity Saga is here, and while most diehard fans will know to avoid them for fear of spoilers, early reviews are mostly positive.

Last year’s “Infinity War” took home an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed more than $2 billion at the worldwide, becoming 2018’s highest-grossing film and the fastest-ever to reach $1 billion and $1.5 billion. This year’s earlier MCU entry and the first with a female lead, “Captain Marvel,” received a 78% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but controversy erupted as some users purposely gave it poor reviews.

Variety’s  Peter Debruge said, “If ‘Infinity War’ was billed as a must-see event for all moviegoers, whether or not they’d attended a single Marvel movie prior, then ‘Endgame’ is the ultimate fan-service follow-up, so densely packed with payoffs to relationships established in the previous films that it all but demands that audiences put in the homework of watching (or rewatching) a dozen earlier movies to appreciate the sense of closure it offers the series’ most popular characters.”

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Here are what other critics are saying:

Los Angeles Times’ Justin Chang:

“The mass slaughter at the end of ‘Infinity War’ felt both colossal and weightless, insofar as you knew it was little more than an epic tease. But the deaths that transpire here are all the more poignant for feeling both carefully considered and genuinely irreversible. To these faintly moistened eyes, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ achieves and earns its climactic surge of feeling, even as it falls just short of real catharsis.”

Mashable’s Angie Han:

“Its magic does require some prior buy-in. This is a film designed for fans, stuffed as it is with callbacks, cameos, and Easter eggs. Certain arcs come full circle after years and years; others are revisited and refashioned into something different. Newcomers will likely find themselves totally lost in this tangle of characters and relationships and mythologies. Those who’ve been following along for a while now, though, will find much to cheer, cry, or swoon over. At both the screenings I attended, the audience reactions were so loud at certain points that entire lines of dialogue were swallowed up. Which is probably just fine with Marvel: all the more reason for fans to go back and see it a second time.”

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw :

“‘Avengers: Endgame’ is of course entirely preposterous and, yes, the central plot device here does not, in itself, deliver the shock of the new. But the sheer enjoyment and fun that it delivers, the pure exotic spectacle, are irresistible, as is its insouciant way of combining the serious and the comic. Without the comedy, the drama would not be palatable. Yet without the earnest, almost childlike belief in the seriousness of what is at stake, the funny stuff would not work either. As an artificial creation, the Avengers have been triumphant, and as entertainment, they have been unconquerable.”

Entertainment Weekly’s Leah Greenblatt:

“With the stakes being no less than the fate of the world (or at least approximately 50% of it), there’s an expected urgency to it all, but an underlying melancholy, too — not just for everything that’s been lost, but for what won’t be coming back. After seven years, four films, and uncountable post-credit Easter eggs, the endgame of an era has finally come.”

The New York Times’ A.O Scott:

“Still, ‘Endgame’ is a monument to adequacy, a fitting capstone to an enterprise that figured out how to be good enough for enough people enough of the time. Not that it’s really over, of course: Disney and Marvel are still working out new wrinkles in the time-money continuum. But the Russos do provide the sense of an ending, a chance to appreciate what has been done before the timelines reset and we all get back to work. The story, which involves time travel, allows for some greatest-hits nostalgic flourishes, and the denouement is like the encore at the big concert when all the musicians come out and link arms and sing something like “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” You didn’t think it would get to you, but it does.”

CNN’s Brian Lowry:

“Even with the interlocking nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ‘Endgame’ feels like a triumph of narrative engineering — weaving in enough callbacks to earlier movies to delight even the nerdiest patrons. The tone also underscores the extent to which the studio has preserved the comics’ spirit, while translating them to the screen in a manner unimaginable when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created them.”

Polygon’s Susana Polo:

“‘Avengers: Endgame’ is a heist movie, and it’s written like one. We know in our comics-trained hearts that our heroes are going to win this one, but a surprisingly tight script does some frankly ingenious problem-solving to raise the stakes over and over again. That logic opens up emotional possibilities for our heroes like no other genre of story can, and while the thrust of the plot is about cosmic rocks, it is hung on a framework of character development and payoff. And there’s nothing Endgame sets up that it doesn’t pay off.”

Vox’s Alex Abad-Santos :

“So it’s special that Marvel manages to achieve the seemingly impossible in ‘Endgame’: creating a movie steeped in years of lore that still manages to recapture the excitement of watching your very first Marvel experience. ‘Endgame’ is a celebration of, and goodbye to, the superheroes that many of us have grown a decade older with. It’s an earnest reminder of these heroes’ ability to reflect our own feelings about what they stand for and the emotions we share with them.”

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Heroes work together in explosive comic-book adventure.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The Avengers is a superhero adventure in which many of Marvel's major characters -- including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) -- come together to battle an otherworldly enemy in a war to the end…

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Hugely explosive, destructive mayhem throughout most of the movie. There's not m

A few uses of words including "ass," "hell, "damn," "bastard," "oh my God," and

Some champagne toasts. One character mixes a drink for himself. A very brief ref

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It's clear: Teamwork matters. The Avengers are best when they're working toward

Though they have their quirks and frailties, ultimately the Avengers all show co

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Violence & Scariness

Hugely explosive, destructive mayhem throughout most of the movie. There's not much in the way of gore/blood, but cars are flung from overpasses, a giant monster tosses people around like rag dolls, entire armies are decimated by lasers, massive explosions and mega aliens destroy buildings, etc. Casualties aren't lingered on, but they're presumably in the thousands; use of nuclear weapons is discussed. In one startling scene, an important supporting character is killed; other characters are injured. Lots of weapons (guns, hammers, shields, arrows, hands, bombs, and more) and fighting. The bad-guy aliens are pretty creepy looking.

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A few uses of words including "ass," "hell, "damn," "bastard," "oh my God," and "son of a bitch."

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Some champagne toasts. One character mixes a drink for himself. A very brief reference to "weed."

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Some flirty banter and form-fitting outfits. Bruce Banner is briefly shown naked, but no sensitive body parts are shown, and it's not sexual in any way.

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Positive Messages

It's clear: Teamwork matters. The Avengers are best when they're working toward the same goal instead of letting others tear them apart. And the movie makes it very clear that you can step up and be a hero no matter what mistakes you might have made in the past. That said, not everyone in the "good guys" camp is always entirely on the up and up, and the heroes do have their share of conflicts before they come together. And violence is the primary means of conflict resolution (with tons of collateral damage).

Positive Role Models

Though they have their quirks and frailties, ultimately the Avengers all show courage and work to overcome their individual challenges so they can accomplish their greater mission. They're not always successful, but when it counts, they come through. Within the group, there are many brands of heroism -- Steve Rogers (Captain America) is always upstanding and squeaky clean; Tony Stark (Iron Man) is snarky and selfish until matters come to a head; Bruce Banner (Hulk) fights his inner demons by trying to help others and avoiding conflict; Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) and Clint Barton (Hawkeye) have very checkered pasts but do the right thing when it matters; and Thor tends to act first and ask questions later but has a strong sense of honor and duty. Although Loki is Thor's brother, he shows no loyalty to him; Thor doesn't feel the same way.

Parents need to know that The Avengers is a superhero adventure in which many of Marvel's major characters -- including Iron Man ( Robert Downey Jr. ), Captain America ( Chris Evans ), Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ), and Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ) -- come together to battle an otherworldly enemy in a war to the end. From the first scene on, there's virtually nonstop comic book mayhem, including advanced weapons, epic-scale battle scenes, and thousands of casualties. Some of the fights are deeply personal as relatives face off, and some people do die, including characters the audience will care about. The heroes sometimes discuss their motivations for fighting crime, and the discussions can be intense, though it also leads to a good deal of camaraderie and cooperation. Expect some swearing ("ass," "son of a bitch," etc.), plenty of snarky quips from Iron Man, an off-hand joke about adoption that could upset some families, and intense 3-D action. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the story.

In THE AVENGERS, when the powerful villain Loki ( Tom Hiddleston ) appears on Earth in search of the Tesseract, a mysterious artifact that holds limitless energy, Nick Fury ( Samuel L. Jackson ), the head of the secret organization S.H.I.E.L.D., realizes it's going to take some equally powerful heroes to save the planet. So he calls in the toughest team he can find -- Iron Man ( Robert Downey Jr. ), the Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo ), Captain America ( Chris Evans ), Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ), expert archer Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), and skilled assassin Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ) -- known collectively as The Avengers. The fate of the planet hangs in the balance ... can Loki be stopped?

Is It Any Good?

Quick-witted and nuanced, this movie takes the best of the genre -- iconic heroes fighting for truth and justice -- and dishes it out in a fanboy-pleasing, edge-of-your seat way. Superhero movies are a dime a dozen these days, so when you chance upon a gem like The Avengers , thank the comic book gods. There's great chemistry, especially between loose cannon Tony Stark/Iron Man (Downey, perfect as usual) and skittish Bruce Banner (Ruffalo, adding great depth) and also between Stark and the starchy, unquestioning Captain America. The banter is believable, even when it's not always easy. And Hiddleston is a fearsome delight as the insecure, approval-hungry Loki.

The Avengers starts with a long-winded set-up -- unavoidable, perhaps, given the characters' many backstories but still mildly annoying -- and the Tesseract at the heart of the conflict soon takes a backseat to the heroes themselves. But no matter: Director Joss Whedon knows his way around compelling, flawed, conflicted superheroes, and he masterfully brings these characters alive in all their complex glory.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about the violence in The Avengers . How does the fact that much of it is larger than life affect its impact ? How is it different watching invading aliens get hurt than human characters?

How does this film compare to other superhero stories? Do you prefer hero movies with just one star, or do you think this collaboration style is better?

Are the Avengers role models? Are some of them "worthier" than others? Why or why not? How do they demonstrate courage and teamwork ? Why are these important character strengths ?

Why is Loki so bent on dominating the world? Who is he trying to impress? Is this all just a family feud?

Movie Details

• In theaters : May 4, 2012
• On DVD or streaming : September 25, 2012
• Cast : Chris Evans , Chris Hemsworth , Robert Downey Jr.
• Director : Joss Whedon
• Studio : Walt Disney Pictures
• Genre : Action/Adventure
• Topics : Superheroes , Adventures
• Character Strengths : Courage , Teamwork
• Run time : 143 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, and a mild drug reference
• Last updated : September 6, 2024

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Avengers: Endgame Review – A Brilliant MCU Finale

Part of the journey is the end. And what a journey it's been to the thrilling, moving Avengers: Endgame.

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After 11 years and 22 films, the ongoing saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come to a turning point. Avengers: Endgame serves not just as the conclusion to the story started last April in Avengers: Infinity War , but it also works to wrap up character arcs and story threads that began seven, eight, or even 10 years ago. That it does so successfully, in a massive, incredibly entertaining epic that is as emotional as it is spectacular, is due to the craft, world-building, and devotion to character empathy and development that has marked the best efforts of this franchise.

As one might expect, there is no easy way to summarize or explain the plot without delving into spoilers, and make no mistake, there are spoilers around almost every corner. But the gist of the story is simple enough and pretty much accurate to what has been shown in the trailers: after Thanos (Josh Brolin) has cut the population of the universe in half with a snap of the Infinity Gauntlet , the surviving Avengers — the original six plus a few remaining allies — immediately deploy a plan to find the Mad Titan, wrest the Gauntlet from him, and undo his monstrous actions.

Naturally, more than a few obstacles are thrown in the path of our heroes, forcing them not just to reconsider their options but to re-examine the choices they’ve made along the way and the paths their lives are taking now. The most surprising thing about Avengers: Endgame is its structure: unlike Infinity War , which sped along on a constant stream of high-octane action sequences , Endgame ’s first hour contains few pyrotechnics by comparison, and it’s a testament to how involved we’ve become with these characters that the viewer doesn’t care and the time flies by anyway (except for the first few scenes, as the picture starts up, the movie does not feel like three hours at all).

Those who were disappointed that some of the original Avengers were either short-changed (or missing entirely) in Infinity War won’t have any complaints here. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson), Hulk/Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) are front and center, with each of them facing decisions and actions that in some cases have roots going back to their very first screen appearances. Also playing important roles are Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and Nebula (Karen Gillan), while Brolin’s Thanos is as menacing and imposing as ever — if a tad less complex than he was in Infinity War .

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That and a few other flaws do take a little of the gloss off this otherwise sumptuous and exhilarating adventure. While the pacing is fine for most of the movie, a handful of sequences feel a bit rushed; one in particular, a real crossroads moment involving two characters, mirrors a similar scene in Infinity War but doesn’t seem to get the same space to breathe and be as emotionally impactful as it should. A few developments for certain characters happen offscreen but could have perhaps benefited from a little more exploration. And some of the mechanics of the plot, without getting into spoiler territory, may benefit from a second viewing if they hold up at all (but given the nature of the story, that material was always going to be tricky anyway, a point that the film even sort of acknowledges).

As for the common objection that one hears from critics of the MCU — that the viewer will be lost if they’re not up on a good chunk of the previous movies — the only answer to that now is “too bad.” Perhaps more than any other MCU film, it will be pretty damn hard to walk cold into Endgame and fully grasp what’s happening — not just in its relation to Infinity War , but with regards to the many callbacks to earlier moments in the other 21 movies. But frankly, if you’re walking into this movie without having seen “enough” of the others or at least being versed in what has come before, then what the hell are you doing there? After 11 years, Marvel Studios has earned the right to operate on its own terms, and is long past the point of coddling the paying customer.

Avengers: Endgame is the pinnacle of that, a three-hour celebration of everything that has come before and a deep dive into all-out fan service that doesn’t feel forced. Sure, there are little in-jokes and references (to both earlier movies and the comics themselves) that are going to fly over some viewers’ heads, but the overall warmth, humor, and emotional connection that has helped almost all these movies work so well over the past decade also go a long way here. With the sense of finality that pervades the movie, there are also moments that will have fans on the edge of their seats, expecting the worst — and in some cases getting it.

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The final third of Endgame is simply overpowering, a senses-filling extravaganza that pays off the build of the first two hours and fully embraces the comic book origins of the MCU in a way that surpasses the visual cues of the films that have come before. By the same token, the movie opens the floodgates once and for all in the MCU in terms of what kinds of stories can be told, and how: nothing is ever going to be too weird or cosmic or “out there” again. Marvel’s careful, gradual cultivation of the many bizarre corners and aspects of its realm has now allowed the studio to make almost whatever movie it wants to.

Kudos are due to screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely for their (in this writer’s opinion, underrated) ability to juggle a multitude of characters and plot strands while keeping their eyes squarely on the characters and how their actions drive the story, and to directors Anthony and Joe Russo for putting it all on the screen in an often beautiful and panoramic vista that bounces from images of almost poetic power to searing explosions of comic book insanity. After four movies in a row, one almost wishes this quartet would keep hanging around the MCU. Overseeing them and their always magnificent cast is Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, who has shepherded this universe to the screen in a way many didn’t think possible, and seen it through to this culminating moment with few missteps.

Of course, more Marvel movies are coming . And some of the many characters in Avengers: Endgame will appear in them. But even for a franchise that seems comfortably able to go on and on as long as the audience keeps showing up , Endgame does pull off the feat of feeling remarkably like a finale, and even the most casual fan may feel the emotional tug of those moments. For long-term, fully invested Marvel fans, Endgame will be both devastating and life-affirming, a story of sacrifice, memory, guilt, and loss that is also a mind-bending superhero blockbuster and a poignant exploration of what it means to be a hero. As Iron Man himself says, part of the journey is the end…but the end is also a new beginning.

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The Best-Reviewed Marvel Movies, According to Rotten Tomatoes

I n Hollywood, a film’s reception and its box office performance don’t always line up. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an entirely different animal. Avengers: Endgame , which broke multiple box office records in its opening weekend, has earned high praise from critics, making it one of the two best reviewed MCU films of all time.

Though critics don’t always cheer for superheroes, Marvel movies on the whole aren’t poorly-rated by any means. Each of the 23 films released in the MCU thus far is rated above 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes , an aggregator for TV and movie criticism which scales out of 100 percent. As many as 21 of the 23 MCU movies are actually “certified fresh,” a ranking for which requirements include a steady score of around 75 percent or higher.

With this year’s groundbreaking Oscar nomination of Black Panther for Best Picture, critical reception of MCU movies could only be growing from here. As Disney prepares its next phase of Marvel films , how the Black Widow origin story and other new movies will fare with critics is something to watch.

In the meantime, here are the best-reviewed and highest-rated Marvel movies in the MCU, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

23. Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66%

The worst-ranking Marvel film of all time is the second installment of Thor . But for MCU films, the “worst” never seems to be that bad: The film did earn a fresh rating, after all. Directed by Alan Taylor, who directed episodes of The Sopranos and Games of Thrones, among dozens of other acclaimed TV series, The Dark World also earned the worst reviews of the Thor series. Late film critic Richard Corliss wrote in his review of the film that there is just way too much going on. “The clutter makes your head feel like it’s about to explode — and not in a good way,” he said.

22. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67%

Fans who haven’t been following the MCU since its inception may not know that Mark Ruffalo didn’t join the squad as Bruce Banner/Hulk in the character’s original solo story. Scientist-turned-green-monster Bruce Banner was introduced to the MCU by Edward Norton in the 2008 film. In his review of the movie, late critic Richard Schickel commented on the way director Louis Leterrier deal with the vast amount of details that go into a film like The Incredible Hulk, one of the first films of its kind. But Schickel’s review came with a scathing critique: “That thought, however, is nearly always followed by this question: Why do they bother?”

21. Iron Man 2 (2010)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 73%

Following the extreme success of 2008’s Iron Man, the sequel has held a spot towards the bottom of this list for years with only 73 percent, making it the worst-reviewed movie of the three in the Iron Man franchise. Corliss wrote for TIME that Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as a more complex Tony Stark is what gives the film some vulnerability interest. “The rest is a cluttered, clattering toy story,” he said.

20. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%

Reviews for Avengers: Age of Ultron, the second installment of the group films, really favored the movie’s writer and director, Joss Whedon. “If anything, Whedon’s writing is almost too sharp,” Lev Grossman wrote in his review for TIME. But still, critical consensus pointed to the film’s abundance of characters and plot diversions as its downfall.

19. Thor (2011)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77%

The original Thor introduces Chris Hemsworth’s mythical god of a superhero and his world of Asgard, as well as his evil brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Introducing the existence of another universe to this cinematic universe could have been tricky, but on the whole, critics agreed that it worked. “At its best moments,” Corliss wrote , “Thor weaves a spot of magic from the complex science of $150-million fantasy-film technology.”

18. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80%

Captain America brings the 1940s to the present with Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers/Captain America, a hero whose newfound powers make him the greatest force against World War II-era enemies. Critics liked Captain America’s introduction, but Corliss criticized the film’s lack of creativity . “The only problem is that we’ve been there — been nearly everywhere Captain America goes — in countless previous movies,” he wrote.

17. Iron Man 3 (2013)

In Iron Man 3, things are different for Tony Stark. He finally has a heart, Corliss wrote in his review , and he comes to terms with issues we’d seen him struggle with in previous movies. But other critics of the movie felt its villain fell flat and its certain plot points lacking.

16. Captain Marvel (2019)

Captain Marvel was highly anticipated for its lead female character (Brie Larson) and for its importance in the storyline of the MCU. With a “certified fresh” rating of 80 percent , it definitely didn’t disappoint. Still, film critics like TIME’s Stephanie Zacharek weren’t so impressed with character Carol Danvers’ origin story . Larson’s acting was great, Zacharek said: but the film, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, provided too few moments for it to shine, leaving room instead for the superhero magic and effects that characterize the Marvel franchise. “Larson does get a few opportunities in Captain Marvel to be that regular, flawed-but-strong human—there just aren’t enough of them, and they’re hardly the focus of the movie,” Zacharek wrote in her review.

15. Ant-Man (2015)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 82%

For a movie with a less than heroic-sounding title flying into new territory, 2015’s Ant-Man fared decently with critics , leveling above 80 percent. Critics were fond of Rudd’s wit and charm in the titular role, despite the lesser-known subject matter. John Anderson called the movie “one of the more entertainingly human fantasies” in his review for TIME .

14. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%

Like its prequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a comedy with a Grammy-nominated soundtrack, but reviews were a bit less favorable . The movie “feels not so much crafted as squirted from a tube,” Zacharek wrote . Despite this, critics also highlighted that like other Marvel films, despite its apparent flaws, fans of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie would love this one all the same.

13. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%

Considering how high Avengers: Infinity War’s ranks as the fifth-highest grossing film worldwide , it might be surprising to find it here on the latter half of the list, seven percentage points lower than 2012’s original Avengers. But bringing all the Avengers together with multiple villains and the Guardians of the Galaxy crew made for a megahit that some critics didn’t take to, critics said . “It’s all sensation and no pulse,” Zacharek wrote .

12. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88%

The first MCU film to name a female character in its title makes the top eleven best-reviewed movies. Ant-Man and the Wasp earned an 88 percent — six percentage points higher than its prequel — largely in part thanks the duo of Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly reprising their Ant-Man roles as Ant-Man and the Wasp, respectively. The movie is “hard to actively dislike,” Zacharek wrote at the time.

11. Doctor Strange (2015)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%

Benedict Cumberbatch’s first introduction to the MCU as Doctor Strange didn’t earn such favorable reviews as the Iron Man and Guardians original solo movies, but it did make the top ten. Cumberbatch’s wit is something that undoubtedly worked in the film, though, and Zacharek said he “knows how to get a big laugh from nothing more than an arched eyebrow” in her review of the film . But the studio’s choice to cast Tilda Swinton as an ancient Eastern sorcerer was met with heavy controversy, as many critics and viewers accused the film of whitewashing for placing a white woman in an Asian role.

10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

With realistic drama and political controversy, The Winter Soldier, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, reveals the discovery of a decades-old conspiracy that threatens the sanctity of the United States government. Corliss wrote that the movie’s focus on internal threats still “fulfills all the expectations of a Marvel movie” while raising the stakes of its action. Critics commented on how the juxtaposition of Captain America, having fought in World War II, in the modern world, gave the film’s lens a deeper layer.

9. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Even though Spider-Man: Far From Home received plenty of warm reviews as the first film in the franchise released post- Endgame, it certainly didn’t fare as well as Spider-Man: Homecoming, the first MCU film to focus on Tom Holland’s rendition of the beloved character. With co-stars Zendaya and Jacob Batalon , Far From Home mostly gets this portrayal of teen antics right, Zacharek wrote in her review. But still, “a huge chunk of the movie’s last third” could have been left out, she said.

8. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%

Director James Gunn took the lighthearted route with Guardians of the Galaxy, starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel (with fun cameos from John. C Reilly and Glenn Close). Ultimately the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes reviews the movie favorably, mostly for its humor and joy. The movie’s soundtrack got a lot of attention, too, and was nominated for a Grammy award.

7. Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Captain America battles Iron Man as the Avengers are pitted against each other after a political disagreement. The hefty baggage came garnered plenty of praise from critics who appreciated the humanlike aspects of the film. (The movie’s main villain has no superhuman abilities. He’s just a bad guy.) “It’s that rare superhero movie that doesn’t grind you down with nonstop action or, worse yet, the usual tiresome cavalcade of smart-ass wisecracks,” Zacharek wrote .

6. The Avengers (2012)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%

2012’s The Avengers proved that a movie featuring all of the MCU’s heroes could actually succeed—in the box office and with critics . Written and directed by Whedon in his MCU debut, the movie introduces the original six Avengers — Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), Captain America, Hulk and Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) — as a team of superheroes backed by the world’s most iconic spy, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Corliss wrote that the film “guarantees fast-paced fun without forcing anyone to think about what it all means, which is nothing.” Corliss and other reviewers noted that the film was a dream for fans of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s work on “Marvel’s The Avengers” comic books, after years of anticipating a film adaptation that brought all of these heroes together at last.

5. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

The third man to play Spider-Man in less than two decades earned the best reviews of all. Critics and moviegoers alike lauded Holland’s portrayal of the teenaged New Yorker, and the film’s sequel, Spider-Man: Far From Home , was met with similar reception. “It’s a relief to see a superhero engaged in deeply human activities,” Zacharek wrote in TIME’s review. This time around, Spidey delivered a “colorful, fun adventure,” Rotten Tomatoes’ critical consensus says.

4. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

In the first two Thor films, as well as his appearances in the first two Avengers movies, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor — all hair and muscle and sternness — took his role as a demigod seriously. But director Taika Waititi rewrote the titular character’s personality in Thor’s third installment to step into a sillier side. The movie is a comedy, often breaking the third wall while Hemsworth’s character isn’t afraid to poke fun of himself and it’s refreshing. Many critics were pleased with the looser vibe, helping it to become the third best-reviewed movie in the MCU.

3. Iron Man (2008)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

2008’s Iron Man was the MCU’s catalyst, offering the origin story for the character who would one day be the leader of the Avengers squad. Critics responded well to Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Tony Stark, the cocky billionaire who is equal parts genius and comedian. Corliss wrote that Tony’s complications gave a new layer to the typically simple superhero characters of old. “The real treat is for grownups, who get a beguiling character study behind and above the special effects,” he wrote.

2. Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%

It’s no surprise that Endgame , which serves as an end piece to the decade-long era of the MCU, provided the kind of satisfying conclusion that viewers and critics hoped for. With a 96 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, it’s the second-best reviewed of the 22 films. Critics who rated the film commented on its success as both a dramatic final act and a joyful, entertaining three hours of cinema. In her review of the film for TIME, Zacharek highlighted that it was the quiet moments between characters we’ve grown to love, rather than “gargantuan” fight scenes, that made this film special. “The tenderness between [characters] is lush and quiet, underscoring what’s most valuable about Endgame ,” she wrote.

1. Black Panther (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%

It’s no surprise that Black Panther tops the list with a 97 percent rating. Not only is it the first superhero movie nominated for the Best Picture Oscar award , but it also took home the top award for Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year. From the movie’s cast, sets, costumes and music, the widespread critical acclaim for Ryan Coogler’s epic is bridging a film industry gap in a way that people hadn’t seen before.

Zacharek wrote that the film is “a picture for everyone that stresses the necessary meaning of the word everyone” in her review of the film last year.

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Avengers: Infinity War

For a 160-minute epic that unifies a far-flung superhero universe that took a decade to build, packs 76 characters into one story, and has four to six plotlines cooking at any given time, “Avengers: Infinity War” hangs together pretty well. The plot finds the intergalactic bad guy Thanos ( Josh Brolin ) and his army of Green Goblin-looking warriors bouncing from star system to star system, torturing and killing various adversaries in order to gather six super-powerful Infinity Stones and embed them in Thanos’ oversized glove. Once he’s collected all six, Thanos will be able to achieve his dream of wiping out half the population of the universe in order to preserve its precious resources and restore “balance.” The only thing standing in his way are the Avengers, led by Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ), Hulk/Bruce Banner ( Mark Ruffalo ), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ), Steve Rogers/Captain America ( Chris Evans ) and the rest. Plus all the characters from “ Black Panther .” And the ones from “ Guardians of the Galaxy .” And a few more Marvel characters who are new to this film.

Co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo , co-writers Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus , their small army of actors, and their hundreds of filmmaking collaborators have managed to get on the same page and stay on it. The film’s running time doesn’t fly by, exactly, but it rarely seems to stall out, which is impressive when you consider how many of the movie’s big scenes consist of people talking, sometimes emoting, in close-up. The Russos swagger headfirst into melodrama here, more blatantly than in any previous Marvel film they’ve directed, though there are problems with their approach that I’ll outline in a moment. The gambit works, mostly, because the story is an operatic tragedy that necessarily has to end with the heroes in a deep, dark place. In light of all this, it’s inevitable (and in no way a spoiler to reveal here) that not every character makes it out alive, and that if you come away from the movie feeling bummed out and anxious rather than elated, that means “Infinity War” has done its job, just as “ The Empire Strikes Back ” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One” did their jobs.

If only the film were better modulated, or perhaps longer, or more elegantly shaped, or … well, it’s hard to say exactly what’s wrong here. But something’s not up to snuff. This is, as many have pointed out, one half of a story broken in two, but it feels like less than half somehow. Until pretty recently, MCU films have suffered from collective curve-grading—each film seemed content to settle for “better than expected,” as opposed to being really, truly good—and that feeling returns here, unfortunately. “Infinity War” faced so many challenges, many of them unique to this particular project, that it’s a small miracle that it works at all. On some level, it feels ungrateful to ask a movie that already does the impossible to do it with more panache. But what are superhero movies without panache really good for? If there was ever a moment to swing for the fences, it was this one.

I like how the movie builds everything around Brolin’s CGI-assisted but still fully inhabited performance as Thanos—an oddly wistful and lonely figure who is, essentially, a religious fanatic, yet carries himself with the calm certainty of a military man who’s read the ancient Greeks and speaks tenderly to cadets while stepping on their necks. (Thanos’ second-in-command, the snide and hateful space wizard Ebony Maw—played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor —makes an equally strong impression, though he doesn’t have many scenes.) Some of the movie’s most affecting and/or frightening moments see Thanos tormenting captive heroes (including Zoe Saldana’s Gamora and her sister Nebula, played by Karen Gillan ) until they disclose the location of the stones, or forcing them to consider killing themselves (or having others kill them) to stop Thanos from achieving his dream.

The movie treats Thanos as an agent of pure chaos, like an Old Testament curse come to life, picking people up by their skulls, deconstructing them into three-dimensional puzzles with a wave of his hand, even rupturing the structural integrity of the universe. He seems to have the brute force of the Hulk and the conjuring skill of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange, one of the only characters who routinely manages to counter his destructive power. At various points, characters wonder aloud if they’d have been better off not fighting him. These are action heroes, but the threat facing them is so daunting that they contemplate an alternate reality in which they don’t act.

Vision ( Paul Bettany ), who has one of the stones embedded in his forehead, gets attacked while he’s off the grid in Scotland, enjoying the company of his beloved Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch ( Elizabeth Olsen ); after they fight off Thanos’ goons at great personal cost, he quips, “I’m beginning to think we should’ve stayed in bed.” Peter Parker/Spider-Man springs into action during a class trip after spotting Thanos’ enormous, doughnut shaped spacecraft descending on Manhattan, then gets the stuffing kicked out of him and says, “I should’ve stayed on the bus.” The movie has wicked fun foreshadowing the possible demise of our heroes. In the only scene featuring Tony and his partner Pepper ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), they discuss Tony’s dream that they had a baby; it feels like the superhero version of one of those scenes in a war flick where the young draftee shows off a photo of his fiancee and declares, “Ain’t she pretty?” Thanos’ assault on Wakanda, where Cap and the gang take Vision in hopes that Shuri ( Letitia Wright ) can preemptively extract and destroy his Infinity Stone, is depicted as the logical, awful result of revealing the once-hidden country’s location, and aligning it with global defense organizations after centuries of neutrality.

And yet, despite the movie’s embrace of pain and fear—exemplified by a scene where Thor lists all the loved ones he’s lost, and appears to be battling PTSD like Tony—it almost never feels as special or as powerful as it ought to. The direction is part of the problem. Marvel’s conceptual artists, visual effects technicians, colorists, and sound designers and mixers are operating at what might be their aesthetic peak here—as well they should be, considering how long this company has labored to perfect a consistent style and tone; the panoramic vistas showing wrecked cities and space stations and distant planets and alternate dimensions, a jumble of psychedelic ironwork and watercolor clouds, seem as strongly influenced by the legendary Marvel illustrator Jack Kirby as Taika Waititi’s disco lark “ Thor: Ragnarok .” 

But rather than match their support team’s inventiveness, the directors avoid risk. They capture both the violent (sometimes cruel) action and the emotionally intense private moments in either a boringly flat or frantically hacky manner (snap-zooms on falling figures; herky-jerky camerawork and fast cutting during fight scenes; the same stuff you see in most action films made during the past decade). They use the camera in an expressive or poetic way so rarely that when they do bust out a heartfelt flourish (like the long, slow camera move that reveals the Guardians in their spaceship engaged in a sing-along, or the “wipes” that reveal the reality that Thanos’ illusions hide, or a climatic fight between Thanos and multiple heroes) it’s as if somebody had briefly sparked a dull wedding reception to life by going out on the dance floor and demanding a song with a backbeat.

This would all be a lot less grating if the MCU hadn’t produced two back-to-back hits, “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Black Panther,” which had vivid directorial personalities (Waititi and Ryan Coogler , respectively), and took as many stylistic/tonal risks as Marvel’s brand would allow. The studio is too bottom-line driven to permit the sort of eccentricity that would’ve made this project truly pop (Joss Whedon’s ungainly potluck “ Avengers: Age of Ultron ,” with its spiky wit and nihilistic robot philosopher baddie, is looking better in retrospect). But it’s no compliment to the Russos to say that it’s tough to tell just by looking at the movie if they were were on a tight corporate leash the entire time, or if they decided to minimize the innate risks of a project this huge and eagerly anticipated by making vanilla choices.

Another issue—and I’m getting dorm room-philosophical, so bear with me—is that the format of a blockbuster MCU movie with 76 characters exposes the limitations of telling a superhero story via this now-well-established cinematic template, as opposed to telling it on the printed page, where the only limits are the writer’s imagination and the illustrator’s flair for presentation. The storytelling vocabulary of superhero movies doesn’t have to be constricted (FX’s extravagantly inventive TV series “Legion” is proof) but it feels quite constricted here; it always has been, notwithstanding occasional outliers like “Thor: Ragnarok,” “Black Panther” and “Ant Man.” There are an infinite number of striking or subtle ways that comic book writers and artists can convey exposition, character details, psychological states, and simultaneous events occurring in parallel storylines; you can do stuff like expand a single decisive instant so that it fills up six pages, or show Spider-Man swinging through midtown Manhattan in a full-page splash panel dotted with thought balloons that summarize a year’s worth of his life. But in the sorts of Marvel films that the MCU has released since 2008, we’ve mostly gotten stuck in linear time, which is where most commercial narratives unfold. Most of the scenes in “Infinity War” fall into one of two categories: (1) scenes where people go into rooms or out onto the street and talk to each other, and (2) action sequences where characters banter while punching and zapping each other and dodging falling rocks, buildings, and spaceships and trying not to get sucked into time-space portals.

There’s only so much information that can be put across when you’ve limited your storytelling in that way. The ticking clock proves a more formidable enemy than Thanos. There are only so many moments or lines that “Infinity War” can give, say, to Tony and Pepper; or to Bruce and Natasha, who had a powerful connection in “Age of Ultron,” got separated soon after, and are confined to a couple of brief exchanges here; or to Peter Quill/Starlord ( Chris Pratt ), Rocket Raccoon ( Bradley Cooper ), Drax ( Dave Bautista ) and Mantis ( Pom Klementieff ), who are stuck doing comic relief when they aren’t suffering greatly or setting up Peter to make some very bad, dumb choices. Heimdall ( Idris Elba ), The Collector ( Benicio Del Toro ) and Proxima Midnight ( Carrie Coon ) are barely in the film. Cap gets maybe two dozen lines and a few meaningful glances, mostly aimed at Sebastian Stan’s Bucky/Winter Soldier, who has even less to do. Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa/Black Panther, who anchored his own marvelous feature just a few months ago, is reduced to a glorified field general in “Infinity War,” standing alongside Okoye ( Danai Gurira ) and M’Baku ( Winston Duke ) and watching Thanos’ troops burn, trample, and otherwise disfigure the countryside (an image that’s more upsetting, for various reasons, than a lot of Thanos’ violence against individuals).

Another downside of packing so many people into one film—so many that they apparently had to cut a few; the film’s IMDb page lists numerous major players who are nowhere to be seen—is that you start to notice that certain characters are redundant variations on/photocopies of other characters, a realization that you might not have had if you were were watching them star in their own self-contained movies. Putting Tony, Peter Parker and Peter Quill in the same scenes, for instance, might sound like a slam dunk, but once you spend a few minutes with them, the barrage of wise-assery becomes grating. It’s like being stuck at a party where every other guy in the room mistakenly believes he’s the funny one. (The scenes between Thor and the Guardians are much better because Thor plays the straight man to Quill, who is threatened by his awesome masculine beauty.)

As is often the case in Russo-directed Marvel movies, the humor comes across more vividly than the action. (“ Captain America: The Winter Soldier ,” with its paranoid thriller stylings and brutal, close-quarters action, is still their zenith.) The movie makes excellent use of Thor and his trickster brother Loki ( Tom Hiddleston ), and gives Hemsworth more chances to show off his formidable deadpan (when Rocket expresses amazement that he can speak Groot’s language, he explains, “They taught it on Asgard—it was an elective”). But the joking around doesn’t so much complement the film’s dark material as clash with it and undermine it. The self-aware humor that the MCU has always done so well ends up working against “Infinity War” in the end. Marvel’s “just kidding” sensibility was a refreshing counterweight to the fashionable darkness of early DC Universe movies, as well as to the “dark & gritty” mode that became a global pop culture default after the success of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies. But if there was ever a time for Marvel to bust out the Zack Snyder-style, heavy-metal gloom and slap the smirk off its own face, it’s here, in a film that’s mostly about summoning the courage to fight battles that you know you can’t win, and accepting the likelihood of dying on your knees with your head held high.

This movie shouldn’t just engage and amuse and occasionally move us; it should shock and scar us. It should kill Ned Stark and Optimus Prime and Bambi’s mommy, then look us in the eye after each fresh wound and say, “Sorry, love. These things happen.” The last 15 minutes have the flavor of that sort of trauma, but without the actual trauma. Deep down, we all know that modern superhero movies are operating with even lower dramatic stakes than Star Wars or James Bond movies: beloved characters rarely stay dead after they’ve been killed, and no plot development, no matter how grave, is irreversible, so there’s no possible way that what seems to be happening on the screen could really be happening. But we shouldn’t be thinking about any of that as we watch Thanos hurt characters we’ve grown to love and cast the universe into ruin. The very sight should rip our hearts out.  

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor-at-Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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• Idris Elba as Heimdall
• Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon (voice)
• Tom Hiddleston as Loki
• Karen Gillan as Nebula
• Sebastian Stan as James "Bucky" Barnes / White Wolf
• Winston Duke as M'Baku
• Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
• Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
• Paul Bettany as Vision
• Zoe Saldana as Gamora
• Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
• Josh Brolin as Thanos
• Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther
• Benedict Wong as Wong
• Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
• Benicio Del Toro as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector
• Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / The Hulk
• Dave Bautista as Drax
• Letitia Wright as Shuri
• Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
• Don Cheadle as James Rhodes / War Machine
• Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon
• Pom Klementieff as Mantis
• Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Nomad
• Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange
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• Alan Silvestri
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The new Avengers Assemble harkens back to the days of old, expertly reviving the spirit of a bygone era. The Avengers franchise has undergone drastic changes since its debut over 60 years ago. Members have come and gone, as have headquarters and vehicles and villains. Avengers Assemble #1 brings classic members back into the fold, and its fun and rollocking nature keep it from being mere fan service.

Avengers Assemble #1 was written by Steve Orlando and drawn by Cory Smith. Captain America is bringing together a new team of Avengers to quickly handle emergencies around the globe. So far, he has recruited Shang-Chi , Photon and the Wasp, Janet Van Dyne. No sooner do they meet than they are called into action, against Sin, the Red Skull’s daughter. Despite half of the team not having arrived yet, Cap leads the new Avengers into battle, but they are overrun.

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And then the MCU happened. In 2012, Marvel Studios released The Avengers. The culmination of “Phase One” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film was a smash hit with fans and critics. The Avengers became a decade-defining movie, launching a massively successful multimedia franchise. Characters that had been B-listers 10 or 15 years prior were now household names. While the early years of the MCU used the publisher’s first Ultimate line as the blueprint, it also drew on Avengers comics being published at the same time.

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