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A solid and diverse cast, an emotional story woven into a cosmic narrative, and some great action.
As someone who adores the highly entertaining comics it’s based on, I think this half-baked and pointless offering should have been called Why Though?
Scarlett Johansson’s earnest goodbye performance and Florence Pugh’s fan-favourite turn as assassin Yelena Belova couldn’t stop me from wondering what a Black Widow solo movie released five years earlier could look like.
Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) bromance their way through hand-to-hand combat, unworthy Captain America successors, super soldier terrorists, race issues, therapy and unhelpful bank managers.
WandaVision comfortably breaks formats, templates and genres as it dives into a mad, Matrix-esque world in which Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the recently deceased Vision (Paul Bettany) are reunited and happy together.
The show is simply the MCU’s most self-assured offering this year.
Shang Chi is a whole lot of fun, right up till its CGI slug-fest ending.
Tom Hiddleston’s long-perfected portrayal of our favourite Asgardian, and the fact that the show fulfils its glorious purpose by introducing Kang and the multiverse, makes Loki a solid number 2 on the list.
SpiderMan: No Way Home is a theatrical experience for the ages, decades in the making.