Every Marvel Studios Movie on movie.guru: The Top 8, Ranked

The data ranked these, not me. Critics and audiences blended, 5.5 is the median movie, and every one of these clears 8.7. I still have notes.

#1 tops the data and gets the lowest Guru's Take on the list.

1. 8
   Captain America: Civil War (2016)8.7

   Tied with Winter Soldier, and it's the lesser Cap movie.

   Both sit at 8.7, but Civil War needed a reported $250M budget and an Iron Man to get there. Guru's Take is 8.0. It's an Avengers movie wearing a Cap shirt.
2. 7
   Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)8.7

   The best Cap movie, and the scoreboard undersells it.

   Same 8.7 as Civil War on roughly $75M less reported budget. Guru's Take is 8.6, highest on this list. A tight spy thriller that happens to have a shield.
3. 6
   Black Panther (2018)8.9

   The critics' favorite here, and it earned every point.

   96% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 88 Metacritic, both tops on this list, plus $700M domestic. The final fight is a CGI blur the rest of the movie didn't deserve.
4. 5
   Iron Man (2008)9.0

   Smallest gross on the list, and it built the whole house.

   $585.8M worldwide, the lowest here, on a reported $150M budget. Still a 9.0. Downey carries it so hard the villain barely registers as a person.
5. 4
   Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)9.0

   A talking raccoon movie has no business being this good.

   9.0 on movie.guru and an 8.0 on IMDb from 1.39 million votes. The mixtape does half the emotional lifting, and the villain is kinda forgettable.
6. 3
   The Avengers (2012)9.0

   The crowd loved it more than critics. The crowd was right.

   Audiences beat 97% of movies, critics 81%, and its 69 Metacritic is the lowest here. A+ CinemaScore anyway, and $1.52 billion worldwide settled the argument.
7. 2
   Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)9.2

   Fan service did the heavy lifting, and it legit worked.

   9.2 on movie.guru, audiences beat 99% of movies, $1.92 billion worldwide. A 71 Metacritic says critics noticed how much of it runs on goodwill.
8. 1
   Avengers: Endgame (2019)9.4

   Number one on the data. Lowest Guru's Take on the list.

   9.4 on movie.guru, audiences beat 100% of movies, $2.94 billion worldwide. Guru's Take: 7.8. A reported $356M victory lap with a messy, wandering middle.

$1,427 says someone in the comments puts Winter Soldier at #1 within the hour and calls it a cover-up.

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