Avengers: Endgame

It is this part of the story, the human side, to narrow it down to our marginal planet, that holds the movie together for its three-hour run time.

This is a feat of engineering... I felt a sense of catharsis finishing it.

It would be nearly unfathomable to have spent more than 20 preceding films with these characters and not feel anything at the end of the sometimes tedious, mostly satisfying Avengers: Endgame.

What you will be getting when you walk into an inevitably overstuffed movie theater is something singular that reflects our age in a way that none of the MCU films that preceded it have-indeed, very few Hollywood spectacles ever have.

The 3-hour culmination of 22 chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is worth going back in time and watching again.

The only complaint about Avengers: Endgame is that it raises the bar so high that there may well never be a superhero movie to match it.

The true superteam event releases marked something slightly different and spectacular...End Game over the original Guardians by a hair...

This goes beyond the usual scale.

A film that somehow manages to be as epic as fans hope and as dramatic as the MCU deserves.

Films don't come any huger than this: the closing chapter to an 11-year saga in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, told across some 22 movies. And by the end of its three-hour runtime, there will definitely be tears.