Empire Magazine April 23, 2019 A victory lap that moonwalks through the best part of the MCU back catalogue and emphasises emotion as much as action, this is an intensely satisfy...
It’s an episodic movie, so it shines in parts, rather than as a whole, but there are plenty of good parts.
Chicago Tribune April 23, 2019 [E]xtravagant – and mostly very gratifying.
Toronto Sun April 23, 2019 We haven’t seen anything like this before in franchise movie-making. One can only hope that the next 10 years of Marvel storytellin...
A rousing finale. Epic in scale and in heart.
New York Post April 23, 2019 You have to hand it to the directors for their ambition in bringing together a clown car full of characters into such a well-told and compelli...
Toronto Star April 24, 2019 Mathematicians say infinity has no end. Avengers: Endgame thrillingly and movingly proves them wrong.
A potent reminder of all that’s good and bad about movies.
Eleven years of Universe building, and this is the crescendo. It really pays off, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
New York Times April 23, 2019 At its best – and "Endgame" is in some ways as good as it gets – the "Avengers" cosmos has been an expansive and inclusive place.
Independent April 24, 2019 This is a movie that dazzles you with its spectacle, provides plenty of irreverent slapstick and gags along the way and yet still ends with&nb...
Endgame reinforces that there’s still a beating heart beneath all the machinery.
Filmspotting April 26, 2019 The MCU has generally successfully balanced planetary and personal stakes. Endgame is a worthy culmination of that storytelling approach.
Financial Times April 24, 2019 The japey inter-hero rivalries and beyond-state-of-the-art visuals go down as easily as always in a formula which, if never quite revolutionis...
Chicago Reader April 25, 2019 A film that should feel overlong and overstuffed rings purposeful, weighted with existential truth even as it flashes before our eyes.
TIME Magazine April 24, 2019 It’s an entertainment designed to please many, many people and disappoint as few as possible, extravagant without necessarily having a vision...
Avengers: Endgame should make a lot of people happy for about three hours and one minute, solid. It’s all that audiences could have poss...
No matter how much homework you’ve done, what actually happens, the order in which it happens and the folks to whom it happens will still pac...
New Yorker April 26, 2019 You can easily duck out during the middle hour, do some shopping, and slip back into your seat for the climax. You won’t have missed a t...
The Daily Beast April 25, 2019 Hitting its every note with expert precision, it’s a triumph of humorous, action-packed, poignant blockbuster filmmaking.
The Australian December 19, 2019 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.
To these faintly moistened eyes, "Avengers: Endgame" achieves and earns its climactic surge of feeling, even as it falls just short of real ca...
Endgame is the participation trophy you get after committing 11 years to these characters.
812filmreviews April 23, 2019 For now, the cast, crew, and creators of the past decade may rest easy on a sun-drench porch with the knowledge that [Endgame] accomplished th...
Boston Globe April 24, 2019 The movie is ludicrously long, clocking in at three hours and one minute, but surprisingly satisfying.
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...
The Guardian April 27, 2019 The final battle is giddily cathartic, but the catharsis arises from prioritising character development over plot and spectacle. This, I imagine, w...
Refinery29 April 23, 2019 Endgame is truly a masterful piece of storytelling, which both goes exactly where you expect it to, and not at all.
After the must-see showdown that was 'Infinity War,' the Russo brothers deliver a more fan-facing three-hour followup, rewarding loyalty to Ma...
Times (UK) April 26, 2019 It’s overdone and bombastic. A fitting end, in other words, to a franchise cycle of insatiable commercial ambition…and thundering c...
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 visu...
The MCU will go on and on, but this chapter – and the American pragmatism vs. American ideals bromance that drove it – have well and trul...
More than any of those franchises, "Endgame," at its best moments, carries the thrill of classic comic-book twists and reversals.
[I]t is slick and affectionate enough for its three-hour running time to pass quickly.
Irish Times April 23, 2019 Endgame spends too much time wallowing in its own pompous mythology.
Rolling Stone April 25, 2019 The MCU’s long goodbye to the Avengers (is it really?) comes off as truly epic and thunderously exciting. But here’s the big surprise-i...
If there were ever a movie designed to please its target audience, Endgame is an emblematic example. Anthony & Joe Russo manage to juggle the...
…A wonderful, rousing payoff in the context of the big battle and as wildly inspiring imagery.
The Guardian April 23, 2019 I have to admit, in all its surreal grandiosity, in all its delirious absurdity, there is a huge sugar rush of excitement to this mighty final...
Daily Telegraph April 23, 2019 I can’t recall a film in this cinematic universe or any other that works as relentlessly and ingeniously to keep delighting its audience...
Builds to an impressively ambitious finale, highlighting both the strengths and the limitations of the franchise as a whole.
The Atlantic April 23, 2019 The Avengers, as a concept, probably won’t be going anywhere, but Endgame still feels like a proper goodbye.
scpr.org September 27, 2019 This is a feat of engineering… I felt a sense of catharsis finishing it.
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.
The most shocking thing about Avengers: Endgame is that there are several moments within this colossal movie that feel like a Marvel miracle.
Endgame has a few tricks up its sleeves that keep going right back to the heart.
Times of Israel April 29, 2019 The 3-hour culmination of 22 chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is worth going back in time and watching again.
[W]hat comes across most strongly here, oddly enough for an effects-driven comic-book-derived film, is the character acting, especially from Downey...
The Motion Picture Academy never recognizes great acting if it comes attached to a costume or a cape. That doesn’t mean Downey isn’t de...
A completely satisfying conclusion…with a deep understanding of the characters and a truly remarkable ability to find a nuanced balance betwee...
Film Companion April 26, 2019 Avengers: Endgame makes you keenly aware of the passage of this time.
News.com.au April 24, 2019 A spectacle that is genuinely affecting and packed with properly exciting moments that will literally make you draw your breath, clap and whoop, an...
Endgame certainly showed there was one and it was just what we needed.
Having set up a formidable task and then some with the finish of "Infinity War," "Avengers: Endgame" rises to the challenge, delivering a...
There are horror movies and political dramas with premises less nightmarish than the one in "Avengers: Endgame… This is an interesting approach for...
RogerEbert.com April 24, 2019 In terms of sheer entertainment value, it’s on the higher end of the MCU, a film that elevates its most iconic heroes to the legendary status...
For young adults who have literally grown up with these movies, the experience may be emotionally overwhelming.
After more than a decade and nearly two dozen pictures, the first era of the MCU comes to an imperfect, crowd-pleasing end with "Avengers: End...
Vanity Fair April 24, 2019 Endgame offers a rich assemblage of movement and detail, full of winning digressions and loyalty-rewarding callbacks.
If the Marvel superhero movies on the whole are your favorite band’s individual albums, "Avengers: Endgame" is the triple-disc greatest...
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo have somehow crafted a coherent and exhilarating epic that incorporates all your favorite superheroes (and man...
Even at three-plus hours, the gargantuan Avengers: Endgame is light on its feet and more freely inventive than it needed to be.
Despite all the whiz-bang CGI effects, some more special than others, the moments I most appreciated in Endgame were the small-scale comic tou...
This is Marvel flexing, building on over 10 years and 20-plus films of careful groundwork and intricate planning to show us what it can d...
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...
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 vers...
ScreenCrush April 23, 2019 A gargantuan love letter to Marvel’s equally enormous mythology.
film.avclub.com April 24, 2019 An earnest, overstuffed, fitfully funny superhero melodrama, Endgame hits the buttons it wants to hit, and sometimes affectingly.
Has almost nothing on its mind but crossing the Ts and dotting the Is of a far-flung superhero saga, but to anyone with even a minor emot...
Endgame is a movie that is nothing you’d expect but everything you want.
MovieFreak.com April 24, 2019 This is a solid adventure that fans will go nuts for.
"Endgame" is the most emotional of the Avengers movies, a tear-stained farewell that effectively tugs at the heartstrings while simultaneously blow...
Avengers: Endgame isn’t as brash, surprising, or relentless as its predecessor but it’s a worthy conclusion to the Infinity War duology...
What "The Deathly Hallows" was to "Harry Potter," what "Return of the Jedi" was to the original "Star Wars," this gargantuan "Endgame" will be to t...
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.
Sight & Sound April 25, 2019 The last-reel battle pretty much has to be the most satisfying superhero movie set piece of all time, delivering the multiple closures this long-in...
Avengers: Endgame is a lot – sometimes too much. But, wow, the payoff is huge. It leaves you proud to have invested over a decade in a fr...
Slant Magazine April 23, 2019 Every serious narrative beat in the film is ultimately undercut by pro-forma storytelling, or by faux-improvised humor.
As "Endgame" sputters to the finish line, it leaves the impression of witnessing a Marvel Movie Marathon compressed to three hours – and ...
The movie largely delivers, splashing its ambitious three-hour narrative across a sprawling canvas of characters, eras, and not-quite-insurmou...
Succeeds at its daunting task: summing up an epic struggle with bedazzling action… and with more humor, zest and feeling – the real, heartfelt...
It was designed to cap a decade of buildup around a single gigantic story… In that sense, it’s certainly a triumph: it’s ambi...
