Eleven years of Universe building, and this is the crescendo. It really pays off, I've never seen anything quite like it.

| Feb 22, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2019

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

| Sep 27, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 1, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 1, 2019

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

| Apr 29, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2019

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.

| Apr 28, 2019

The final battle is giddily cathartic, but the catharsis arises from prioritising character development over plot and spectacle. This, I imagine, will be the Avengers' legacy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2019

It's fun to see all these character threads unravel, and knit up, as the movie waddles toward its big but indifferent climax of Avengers versus Thanos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2019

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

| Apr 26, 2019

It feels like a curtain closing...there was an elegance in the way they moved toward conclusion. No fan is going to watch and feel short-changed.

| Apr 26, 2019

...A wonderful, rousing payoff in the context of the big battle and as wildly inspiring imagery.

| Apr 26, 2019

Avengers: Endgame makes you keenly aware of the passage of this time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

A rousing finale. Epic in scale and in heart.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 26, 2019

It's overdone and bombastic. A fitting end, in other words, to a franchise cycle of insatiable commercial ambition...and thundering creative swagger.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

Avengers: Endgame should make a lot of people happy for about three hours and one minute, solid. It's all that audiences could have possibly hoped for.

| Apr 26, 2019

The MCU has generally successfully balanced planetary and personal stakes. Endgame is a worthy culmination of that storytelling approach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

There are horror movies and political dramas with premises less nightmarish than the one in "Avengers: Endgame... This is an interesting approach for a superhero film to take.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2019