Avengers: Endgame

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

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 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.

What's missing from "Endgame" is the free play of imagination, the liberation of speculation, the meandering paths and loose ends that start in logic and lead to wonder.

The MCU will go on and on, but this chapter - and the American pragmatism vs. American ideals bromance that drove it - have well and truly come to their "Excelsior! Nuff said!" moment.

Endgame consists almost entirely of the downtime scenes that were always secretly everyone's favorite parts of these movies anyway.

As fun as the movie is, there's an undeniable hollowness at its core induced by its unwillingness to follow through on certain ideas and symbols.

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I'm not naïve enough to suppose that anything I can say here is likely to change anyone's plans about going or not going, so I'll simply say that I enjoyed this silly but thrilling superhero free-for-all.

You would think they would go back to a time when Thanos was young and vulnerable and off him. They opt for a more intricate approach, which bored me.