We’re doing an awful lot here! Sometimes it means that I’m tearing up, other times I’m having to remind myself how to breathe, other-other times I’m a little puzzled at how we have this many things to keep track of.

The nearest comps in my head for FR are Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 or Return of the King: grand finales that can’t hep but feel like they’ve got a touch of gigantism that keeps them, for all their ambition and…

I’m a bit punchy after getting this in under the gun before Final Reckoning tomorrow, but I did it!

McQ has a really high floor as a director, and the movie’s as audacious as it gets, but if I put the pom-poms down for a second, it feels like the mix here isn’t quite right. I get the feeling that something about DR being half of a two-parter and the setup to the grand finale smokescreens what’s needed and where; the…

One of my least flattering qualities is that I'm still more in than out (albeit just barely) on the Marvel movies, a quality amplified by this probably being my favorite of the Avengers outings.

It's entirely too long, overwrought, crammed with an overabundance of ideas, not nearly as funny as it thinks it is, and nakedly trying so very hard that I can't help but find the whole endeavor sort of riveting. Age of Ultron wants to have the indulgence…