Best 2010s superhero movies

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse▲ Rising

Miles Morales leaps off a Brooklyn rooftop not knowing if he'll fall or fly, and in that single frame animation cinema resets itself. Sony's gamble on a splashy, comic-panel-drenched multiverse story didn't just honor Spider-Man's legacy — it obliterated the House style of superhero filmmaking and forced Pixar itself to catch up. No superhero movie this decade felt more like a miracle of pure craft, which is exactly why it belongs at the top of any honest list.

Release Year: 2018Critic Score: 9.7/10IMDb Rating: 8.4/10Worldwide Box Office: $384,300,000Production Budget: $90,000,000Part of MCU: —Oscar Wins: 1

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Avengers: Endgame▲ Rising

Cap catching Thor's hammer, every portal opening at once, "Avengers Assemble" finally spoken aloud after a decade of waiting — Endgame is the payoff blockbuster cinema spent eleven years and twenty-two movies building toward. It's bloated and fan-servicey by design, but that design worked: it became the highest-grossing film ever made and gave an entire generation a genuine communal theater experience. You can nitpick the time-travel logic forever, but you can't argue with the sob you felt when Tony said "I am Iron Man" one last time.

Release Year: 2019Critic Score: 9.4/10IMDb Rating: 8.4/10Worldwide Box Office: $2,797,800,000Production Budget: $356,000,000Part of MCU: ✓Oscar Wins: 0

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Logan▲ Rising

An old, broken Wolverine drives a limo and drinks himself numb until a feral little girl who claws like him drags him into one last, bloody road trip toward death. James Mangold stripped away spandex and quips for something closer to Unforgiven, proving a superhero movie could be Western, elegy, and character study all at once — and it earned Hugh Jackman's only Oscar-nominated performance in the role. It's the film that argued genre movies could grow up, and comic book cinema is still chasing that same rawness.

Release Year: 2017Critic Score: 9.3/10IMDb Rating: 8.1/10Worldwide Box Office: $619,000,000Production Budget: $97,000,000Part of MCU: —Oscar Wins: 0

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The Avengers

Joss Whedon's team-up shouldn't have worked — four movies' worth of egos, a god, a super-soldier, a green rage monster, and one guy with a bow sharing a screen — but the shawarma-scarfing final shot proved the MCU's entire experiment was sustainable. The Battle of New York single take is still the blueprint every crossover event since has tried to replicate. It's the movie that turned

Release Year: 2012Critic Score: 9.2/10IMDb Rating: 8/10Worldwide Box Office: $1,518,800,000Production Budget: $220,000,000Part of MCU: ✓Oscar Wins: 0

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Black Panther▼ Falling

Release Year: 2018Critic Score: 9.6/10IMDb Rating: 7.3/10Worldwide Box Office: $1,347,000,000Production Budget: $200,000,000Part of MCU: ✓Oscar Wins: 3

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