Film Review: ‘Avengers: Endgame’

Spoiler Alert: The following review contains mild spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame.”The culmination of 10 years and more than twice as many movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Avengers: Endgame” promises closure where its predecessor, “Avengers: Infinity War,” sowed chaos.

That film — which revealed that the cookie-cutter uniformity of all those McU movies had been part of an unprecedented master plan — infamously wrapped with a snap: a gesture that, when performed by a supervillain armed with the six Infinity Stones, was capable of wiping out half of all life in the universe.Audiences have had a year to mourn the loss of Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Black Panther (whom they’d only just met two months earlier), and to nurture theories as to where directing siblings Anthony and Joe Russo might steer things from here.

Maybe all those characters weren’t really dead.

Maybe the remaining Avengers just need to travel inside

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