Here's what the first 'Avengers: Endgame' reviews have to say
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The first reviews for the highly-anticipated Avengers: Endgame are out and from the looks of it, the film has no intention to disappoint its exceedingly loyal fans.
Endgame wraps up a decade-long superhero journey as the Avengers assemble to revert the effects of the "Snapture" in their one last stand.
And here's what the reviews have to say about the film.
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Almost all reviews of 'Avengers: Endgame' are positive
By Wednesday afternoon, all but four of the 111 reviews for Avengers: Endgame collected by Rotten Tomatoes were positive.
Critics have near-unanimously declared Avengers: Endgame, which releases on April 26, a great send-off to the story we've followed for 11 years through 21 films and parallel television shows.
Endgame features an ensemble cast and is the 22nd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Review #1
'Endgame' provides the sense of an ending, writes NYT's reviewer
Writing for The New York Times, AO Scott describes Endgame's mood as "tender and comradely touched by acute grief and the more subtle melancholy," adding that the film does provide the sense of an ending.
Scott writes, "Endgame is a monument to adequacy, a fitting capstone to an enterprise that figured out how to be good enough for enough people enough of the time."
Review #2
Entirely preposterous, but irresistible: The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw
Lauding Endgame's "unconquerable brilliance," The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film five stars (out of five) but also acknowledged the film's "delirious absurdity."
Bradshaw writes, "Avengers: Endgame is of course entirely preposterous and, yes, the central plot device here does not, in itself, deliver the shock of the new. But the sheer enjoyment and fun that it delivers, the pure exotic spectacle, are irresistible."
Review #3
'There's alcoholism, depression, drastic lifestyle changes'
In Empire Magazine's spoiler-prone review, Helen O'Hara writes, "If this is fan service (OK, it's definitely fan service) it's exceptionally well deployed."
O'Hara informs readers that most clips from the trailers are events from Endgame's first 15 minutes where the heroes go through five stages of grief.
O'Hara writes, "There's alcoholism, depression, drastic lifestyle changes and simple avoidance of things too painful to face."
Review #4
'Feels like an anniversary project, big group-hug after Infinity War'
Writing for The Verge, Tasha Robinson calls the film a "triumph" adding that it's "constructed of callbacks, references, reminders, and reminiscences" and is "full of catharsis for its characters and its audience."
Referring to the flashback scenes, Robinson writes, "It feels like an anniversary project, a look back through the ol' MCU scrapbook, and a big collective group hug after Infinity War."
Review #5
'After 11 years, the Infinity Saga is finally, fulfillingly over'
"As high as the stakes are in Endgame, it is also a very funny movie," writes Michael O'Sullivan for The Washington Post.
"If Infinity War was about failure, Endgame is, ironically, all about acceptance and moving on. After 11 long years, the Infinity Saga is finally, fulfillingly over," Sullivan writes, adding, "what a going-away party these old friends have thrown for themselves."