Chris Evans's 8 Most Underrated Movies. No Matter What You Tell Me, You Can't Change My Mind.

Everyone knows the shield. Fewer people saw the train, the sun, or the sweater. Here are the Evans movies that deserve way more love than they got.

Number one is the Marvel movie you skip on every rewatch. Argue below.

1. 8
   Knives Out (2019)9.4

   Evans in a sweater is his funniest work, period.

   9.4 movie.guru score, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone quotes Daniel Craig's accent. Evans steals every scene by being the rudest man in the house.
2. 7
   Captain America: Civil War (2016)8.7

   Sold as an Avengers brawl, secretly a Cap movie.

   8.7 movie.guru score, an A CinemaScore, $1.16B worldwide. The airport fight gets the memes. Evans carrying a friendship story on one arm is the actual movie.
3. 6
   Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)8.7

   The best Marvel movie is a spy thriller in disguise.

   Guru's Take 8.6 and an A CinemaScore, but $714.4M worldwide. That's under half of The Avengers' haul, for the tighter, smarter movie.
4. 5
   Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)7.9

   Evans parodying an action star is peak self-awareness.

   7.9 movie.guru score and an A-minus CinemaScore, yet only $51.8M worldwide on a reported $60M to $85M budget. Theaters missed it. Your couch shouldn't.
5. 4
   Sunshine (2007)7.0

   His best dramatic work hides in a Danny Boyle space movie.

   $3,675,753 domestic on a reported $40M budget. That's it. A 77% on Rotten Tomatoes says you skipped a good one, even if the back half gets weird.
6. 3
   Snowpiercer (2013)7.9

   Evans's best movie, and almost nobody saw it in theaters.

   94% on Rotten Tomatoes, an 84 Metacritic, $4,563,650 domestic. Bong Joon Ho put Captain America on a train and America mostly skipped the ride.
7. 2
   Avengers: Infinity War (2018)8.5

   Infinity War is better than Endgame. Yes, really.

   Guru's Take 8.6, an 8.4 on IMDb, $2.05B worldwide. Endgame got the higher score and the bigger gross. This one got the tighter, braver movie.
8. 1
   Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)6.8

   The Cap origin everyone skips is the most underrated one.

   6.8 movie.guru score, A-minus CinemaScore, $370.6M worldwide. Not his best, but it's the foundation. Skip it and half his later arc lands with a thud.

$293.58 says somebody in the comments puts Snowpiercer first and calls the rest of us cowards.

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