re: Avengers: Endgame - NO SPOILERS THREAD - Reviews - RT Score at 96

Pulled a 100 on Metacritic from Richard Roeper:

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They saved maybe the best for the end.

I’m not prepared to instantly label “Avengers: Endgame” as the best of the 23 Marvel Universe movies to date, but it’s a serious contender for the crown and it’s the undisputed champion when it comes to emotional punch.

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Oh noz, first negative is up from a 'Globe and Mail'

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Barry Hertz
Globe and Mail

April 23, 2019
[T]he entire endeavour loses any sense of emotional stakes or general meaning beyond the deliverance of crass fan-service and incomprehensible visuals.

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98% on RT right now with just one negative review

A lot of critics are programmed to hate CGI automatically which is funny because the blockbusters they bend over backwards to praise for using practical effects (looking at Mad Max:Fury Road), have just as much if not more CGI than every other blockbuster out there.

This is total conjecture, but I could see them
thinking that if several beloved characters are killed off

Screencrush gave it an 8/10.

Mostly spoiler free review.

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There are nits to pick about some of the ins and outs of the Avengers’ plan, and I doubt I will be the only one who found it odd that this movie openly mocks a film it then proceeds to steal from for the next hour or so. Still, Avengers: Endgame largely delivers exactly what its audience wants: Huge setpieces, massive stakes, inspirational speeches, the Avengers being ride-or-die besties, and emotional moments that may or may not have made me cry. (Okay, fine, made. I cried at least two times. [Okay, fine! More than two times. I’m not made of stone like the Thing!]) No matter what comes next from Marvel Studios, this Avengers is a gargantuan love letter to the equally enormous mythology that Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and the rest of their collaborators built — and to the generations of readers and moviegoers who truly believe in it.

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The only place I've heard about that was from people saying they read the leaks which turned out to be bs. And I'm not talking about the footage

Verge review -

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Much like Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it will inevitably anger some viewers, who won’t get the specific payoffs they wanted. And it’ll lose some viewers entirely, either through its tangled storylines, or its dedication to dark, sad emotions instead of the triumph that usually comes with superhero stories. But for a certain brand of fan, the ones that care about who these characters are, where they started, and what they’ve become over time, this is going to be an experience like nothing else they’ve seen onscreen.The Marvel Cinematic Universe has started a lot of studios down some dark roads, chasing franchise money at the expense of everything else. But at least Feige and his teams can say this: they’ve parlayed their successes into a chance to make movies that no one else could get away with making.

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But for a certain brand of fan, the ones that care about who these characters are, where they started, and what they’ve become over time, this is going to be an experience like nothing else they’ve seen onscreen.

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But these are the fans TLJ upset so the reviewer seems to have little idea as to what angered viewers.

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But these are the fans TLJ upset so the reviewer seems to have little idea as to what angered viewers.

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In order for me to be as angry with this movie as I was in TLJ, Captain America will have to have become a depressed drunk, said that America deserved to have half his citizens wiped out due to colonialism, and then he kills himself on the shitter.