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April 26, 2019

At the Movies: ‘Avengers: Endgame' is the Marvel machine in high gear

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

“Endgame” ties together the entire 22-film arc of the Marvel universe, which began with 2008’s “Iron Man.”

Satisfaction is a complicated concept in Marvel Land. On the one hand, every morsel of pre-release information is obsessively pored over in feverish anticipation. But by the time the movie is coming out, a sudden hush comes over die-hard fans who, to avoid spoilers, have abandoned their phones, detached from the grid and found a quiet ditch to lay in until the coast is clear and the multiplex is open. It's an anguished dance between wanting to know everything and nothing, at once. And it never ceases. No Marvel ending (usually) lasts past the credits.


 
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