Rate the MCU Phase 4 movies

1) Dr Strange MoM  8/10
Flawed, but easily the best in my opinion . Mainly because of my boy Raimi. Dr Strange is also the only interesting character left in the MCU.

2) No Way Home  7/10
One big gimmick, but I enjoyed it more than the rest that follow. It’s pure fan service, but it’s fan service with heart and soul. It’s got a Saturday morning cartoon plot, but it’s also got lots of Saturday morning cartoon fun.

3) Wakanda Forever 6/10
Had Chadwick been with us to play TChalla this would’ve been the best of Phase Four. This franchise just doesn’t quite work without him.

4) Eternals 6/10
Bland and not very memorable, but it’s got actual real location shoots and some interesting mythology.

5) Thor LAT 6/10
Too self indulgent with way too much emphasis on humor. But Thor is still likable and Bale is great with what little they give him. 

6) Black Widow 5/10
Generic in every way, but it does have likable engaging characters.

7) Shang Chi 3/10
I still don’t understand the praise this gets. It has a boring lead with no character arc, not one but two intolerable comic relief characters, a ludicrously contrived plot, cookie cutter MCU directing, and the worst CGI filled third act in a comic book movie in years.

Dr. Strange MoM
No Way Home
Thor L&T
Wakanda Forever
Black Widow
Shang-Chi
Eternals

Wakanda Forever
No Way Home
Shang-Chi
Multiverse of Madness
Love and Thunder
Eternals
Black Widow

Spider-Man: No Way Home (8/10)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (7.5/10)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (7/10)
Black Widow (7/10)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (7/10)
Eternals (6/10)
Thor: Love and Thunder (6/10)

No Way Home 7,5/10
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 7/10
Black Widow 7/10

1) No Way Home (7/10)
Not, by any means, a great movie (the film is too dependent on the characters acting like idiots to move the plot forward), but it felt like a nice character-driven conclusion to 3 generations of Spider-Man

2) Multverse of Madness (7/10)
Squanders a lot of its potential, but is a decently fun movie elevated by Raimi’s direction

3) Shang Chi (6/10)
Had me riveted with its first act and then gradually declines into the typical weaknesses of the MCU: an overblown ending with out-of-place humor scattered throughout

4) Black Widow (5/10)
Just bland all around. A weak villain, boring action scenes, and virtually no stakes made this such an unmemorable watch.

Haven’t seen (and don’t really plan to see) any of the others. Each of the previous “phases” had, at least, 1 film I really enjoyed (gave 8/10 or above). Phase 4 never got there for me.