Avengers: Endgame

Marvel has clearly saved the best for last and I cannot stress how much those fan service moments will have you cheering. I highly recommend that you see Endgame in a packed theater of fans so that you can experience the climactic ending with the energy of the crowd. It’s like Marvel planned it that way. Thank you to everyone involved, the actors, the writers, the Russo brothers, the fans and most of all Stan Lee. Now, go read a comic book.

Avengers: Endgame (2019) Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. (Based on the Marvel comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and the comic by Jim Starlin.) Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Brie Larson, Scarlett Johansson, Karen Gillan, Paul Rudd, Dave Bautista, Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Brolin, Tom Holland, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Sebastian Stan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katherine Langford, Winston Duke, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Danai Gurira, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chadwick Boseman, Kerry Condon, Frank Grillo, Ty Simpkins, Letitia Wright, Emma Fuhrmann, Don Cheadle, Sean Gunn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong. 

9.5 out of 10 

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Alan Ng

Avengers: Endgame is just another example of the brilliant storytelling coming out of Marvel all along. It shattered every theory I had going in and told a story that upped-the-stakes for the universe as we know it and kept you on edge with anxiety attacks all the way through. Everyone’s saying this but the ending and all the loose-end tying was “satisfying.”  9.5 out of 10 stars

Alex Saveliev

Aside from the principal, lunatic quest, there are moments to enjoy, most of them involving a beer-bellied Thor (Chris Hemsworth), who’s become one of my favorite MCU characters, alongside the Guardians of the Galaxy bunch. Endgame could have used more of the charm and hilarity he brings to his scenes, to counterbalance all the pomposity, solemnity and grimness in a film that, not to beat a dead horse, contains Spider-Man riding a pegasus. The film’s colossal revisiting of all the “ghosts of MCU’s past” is also cleverly incorporated; this is a fan-service machine. Robert Downey Jr. takes center stage as Tony Stark and, as usual, showcases a knack for both zingers and pathos. Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow also gets some touching scenes that add depth to a previously-way-underserved character.  6 out of 10