
Essentially, that means that among each given tier, the movies are more or less interchangeable. And that's why for this particular exercise the movies are ranked in tiers.

Which makes it difficult, really, to rank one of these movies ahead of another. Through the years, Kevin Feige and the MCU team have done a really great job of building out what almost feels like a house brand or formula they know what makes a good movie, and what fans of the genre and the characters tend to like.

Rewatching movies with the privilege of hindsight can often be rewarding, and this is especially the case when watching through the MCU's three existing phases. Memories are fickle, people change, opinions change, and things take on new contexts. Spider-Man: No Way Home, unbelievably, is now out in theaters. Black Widowand Shang-Chi are available to watch on Disney+, with Eternals following soon.
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It's a lot, but it's a very far cry from insurmountable.Ģ021 has already brought the MCU back from a lengthy delay with the debuts of Disney+ series WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Solider, Loki, What If.?, and Hawkeye. 26-27 movies (more on that in a bit) in the range of 2-3 hours comes out to the equivalent of somewhere around 4-5 seasons of a prestige drama. But breezing through a rewatch (or a first watch) of the MCU is really not all that much when you think about it in the context of the way we now watch and binge TV. Look, obviously a 20+ project or list of anything is a lot to take on, and it sure sounds like it, too. These are fun movies that often get at and invoke deeper themes they're action-packed with tons of levity and bring characters you'll love down the line, even if you don't care for them initially.īut back to that main point-watching everything.

At the onset of 2021, I embarked upon a rewatch of the feature films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from 2008's Iron Man to 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, before eventually screening 2021's Black Widow in a theater (my first time back in one of those since March 2020) and returning a few months later to see Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all on the big screen. Watching 20+ movies sounds daunting, but it's really not that bad.
