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.

For me, it didn't fulfill the promise of Infinity War, but it did fulfill the promise of the previous twenty movies.

I'm just grateful to have the privilege to watch this along with the rest of the world. It's not perfect, but it has been one hell of a ride.

Here's the other really neat thing about Endgame: it made me think of priorities in life and what or who is worth sacrificing for, especially loved ones...

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