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Every Marvel Cinematic Universe and X-Men film on the road to Avengers: Doomsday, with summaries, runtimes, and Rotten Tomatoes scores.

64 titles

  • X-Men(2000)

    A young girl with deadly powers finds sanctuary at a school for mutants while the world debates whether mutants are humanity's evolution or extinction. As a hateful mastermind plots a way to eradicate mutantkind, the X-Men must choose whether to fight or flee.

    1h 44mRT Critic 82%RT Audience 83%
  • Spider-Man(2002)

    Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically engineered spider and gains extraordinary abilities, but it takes the murder of his Uncle Ben—by a thief Peter chose not to stop—to transform him into Spider-Man. His greatest test comes when his best friend's father, Norman Osborn, becomes the insane Green Goblin and forces Peter to choose between the woman he loves and a cable car full of children.

    2h 1mRT Critic 90%RT Audience 67%
  • X2: X-Men United(2003)

    When the U.S. government attacks the X-Men school, Professor Xavier and Magneto must form an unlikely alliance. As a mysterious force hunts mutants across America, the X-Men uncover a chilling truth: someone is manufacturing weapons from mutant biology.

    2h 15mRT Critic 85%RT Audience 85%
  • Spider-Man 2(2004)

    Two years into being Spider-Man, Peter Parker is falling apart. He's failing his classes, losing his job, and pushing away Mary Jane—who's now engaged to someone else. When his powers begin failing him and a brilliant scientist becomes the tentacled Doc Ock, Peter must decide whether the world actually needs Spider-Man or if he can finally just be Peter Parker.

    2h 7mRT Critic 93%RT Audience 82%
  • X-Men: The Last Stand(2006)

    When a pharmaceutical company offers a mutant "cure," mutantkind fractures into those who wish to be human and those who believe mutation is evolution. As war erupts between Xavier's X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood, Jean Grey returns transformed into an unstoppable force that may destroy them all.

    1h 44mRT Critic 56%RT Audience 61%
  • Spider-Man 3(2007)

    Peter Parker is on top of the world—celebrated, in love, ready to propose—until an alien symbiote bonds with his suit and amplifies his worst impulses. With Harry Osborn attacking as the New Goblin, Flint Marko revealed as Uncle Ben's true killer, and the symbiote spawning Venom from a rival photographer, Peter faces the most enemies he's ever fought and nearly loses himself in the process.

    2h 19mRT Critic 62%RT Audience 51%
  • Iron Man(2008)

    Phase 1

    Billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark is captured by terrorists and builds a powered suit of armor to escape. Upon returning home, he perfects the technology and becomes Iron Man, vowing to protect the world from the weapons his company created.

    2h 6mRT Critic 94%RT Audience 91%
  • The Incredible Hulk(2008)

    Phase 1

    Scientist Bruce Banner, on the run from the military, searches for a cure to the gamma radiation that transforms him into the Hulk. When a soldier undergoes a similar transformation to hunt him down, Bruce must embrace the monster within to stop him.

    1h 52mRT Critic 68%RT Audience 69%
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine(2009)

    Logan and his brother Victor are soldiers first, mutants second, until Victor becomes so consumed by violence that he transcends choice. This film asks what happens when evolution removes humanity, and whether some people can be saved or whether they can only be stopped.

    1h 47mRT Critic 37%RT Audience 58%
  • Iron Man 2(2010)

    Phase 1

    Tony Stark faces pressure from the government to share his Iron Man technology while secretly dying from palladium poisoning. A vengeful Russian physicist and a rival weapons contractor force Tony to confront his legacy and find a new path forward.

    2h 4mRT Critic 72%RT Audience 71%
  • Thor(2011)

    Phase 1

    The arrogant prince of Asgard is banished to Earth after reigniting an ancient war. Stripped of his powers and hammer, Thor must prove himself worthy while his scheming brother Loki seizes the throne.

    1h 55mRT Critic 77%RT Audience 76%
  • X-Men: First Class(2011)

    Before Xavier and Magneto became enemies, they were friends united in discovering their extraordinary abilities. Set during the Cold War, the film traces their recruitment of the first generation of X-Men as they confront a plot that will tear their partnership apart.

    2h 11mRT Critic 86%RT Audience 87%
  • Captain America: The First Avenger(2011)

    Phase 1

    During World War II, a frail young man named Steve Rogers is transformed into the super-soldier Captain America. He must stop the Nazi science division HYDRA and its leader Red Skull from using a powerful artifact to conquer the world.

    2h 4mRT Critic 80%RT Audience 75%
  • The Avengers(2012)

    Phase 1

    When Loki arrives on Earth with an alien army, Nick Fury assembles a team of remarkable people: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. They must learn to work together to stop an invasion that threatens all of humanity.

    2h 23mRT Critic 91%RT Audience 91%
  • The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)

    After his parents vanish under mysterious circumstances, Peter Parker is raised by Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Years later, his father's old briefcase leads him to Oscorp, where a genetically modified spider bite transforms him—and where his father's former partner, Dr. Curt Connors, is about to unleash something monstrous on New York.

    2h 16mRT Critic 71%RT Audience 77%
  • Iron Man 3(2013)

    Phase 2

    Haunted by the events of New York, Tony Stark faces a terrorist called the Mandarin who destroys everything he holds dear. Stripped of his armor and resources, Tony must rely on his ingenuity to protect those he loves and confront his own demons.

    2h 10mRT Critic 79%RT Audience 78%
  • The Wolverine(2013)

    Two years after being forced to kill Jean Grey, a self-exiled Wolverine is summoned to Tokyo by the dying industrialist he saved during the 1945 Nagasaki bombing—who wants to take Wolverine's healing factor and finally let Logan die. The offer turns into a succession war over the man's company, and Logan is pulled into a Yakuza plot against his granddaughter while something starts shutting his own healing factor down.

    2h 6mRT Critic 70%RT Audience 69%
  • Thor: The Dark World(2013)

    Phase 2

    An ancient enemy called Malekith awakens seeking the Aether, a powerful Infinity Stone bonded to Jane Foster. Thor must ally with his imprisoned brother Loki to save Jane and stop Malekith from plunging the universe into darkness.

    1h 52mRT Critic 67%RT Audience 74%
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier(2014)

    Phase 2

    Steve Rogers struggles to adapt to the modern world while working for S.H.I.E.L.D. When a deadly assassin called the Winter Soldier emerges and a conspiracy threatens millions of lives, Steve discovers that the enemy has been hiding within all along.

    2h 16mRT Critic 90%RT Audience 92%
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2(2014)

    Peter Parker is thriving as Spider-Man but haunted by Captain Stacy's ghost and his promise to stay away from Gwen. When a lonely Oscorp engineer becomes the electric-powered Electro and Peter's childhood friend Harry Osborn returns desperate for a cure to a terminal disease, everything converges on a clock tower where Peter will face the loss that defines him forever.

    2h 22mRT Critic 50%RT Audience 64%
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past(2014)

    In a future where mutants are hunted to extinction, the surviving X-Men send Wolverine's consciousness back to the 1970s to prevent the weapon that will destroy them all. Past and future merge as old alliances reform and old enemies resurface.

    2h 11mRT Critic 90%RT Audience 91%
  • Guardians of the Galaxy(2014)

    Phase 2

    A group of intergalactic misfits—a human outlaw, an assassin, a maniac, a tree, and a raccoon—are thrown together when they discover an orb containing an Infinity Stone. They must stop a fanatic from using it to destroy an entire civilization.

    2h 1mRT Critic 91%RT Audience 92%
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron(2015)

    Phase 2

    When Tony Stark's peacekeeping program becomes the murderous AI Ultron, the Avengers must reunite to stop him from causing human extinction. Along the way, they gain new allies and face fractures that will shape the team's future.

    2h 21mRT Critic 75%RT Audience 82%
  • Ant-Man(2015)

    Phase 2

    A master thief is recruited by a scientist to wear a shrinking suit and pull off a heist to save the world. Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero to protect the technology from falling into dangerous hands.

    1h 57mRT Critic 83%RT Audience 85%
  • Deadpool(2016)

    Wade Wilson, a former mercenary turned test subject, emerges from torture transformed into an immortal assassin with accelerated healing and maximum sarcasm. He embarks on a violent, hilarious quest to find the man responsible for his disfigurement and make him pay.

    1h 48mRT Critic 85%RT Audience 90%
  • Captain America: Civil War(2016)

    Phase 3

    The Avengers splinter over government oversight after collateral damage from their missions sparks global outrage. Steve Rogers and Tony Stark find themselves on opposite sides, and when Bucky Barnes resurfaces as the prime suspect in a terrorist bombing, the ideological divide becomes deeply personal.

    2h 27mRT Critic 90%RT Audience 89%
  • X-Men: Apocalypse(2016)

    Apocalypse emerges from ancient dormancy believing that the strong should rule and the weak should serve. This film asks whether ideology born from power can ever recognize its own cruelty, and what happens when someone powerful enough to reshape civilization decides to do exactly that.

    2h 24mRT Critic 47%RT Audience 64%
  • Doctor Strange(2016)

    Phase 3

    Brilliant neurosurgeon Stephen Strange loses the use of his hands in a devastating car accident. Desperate to heal himself, his search leads him to Kamar-Taj, where he discovers the Mystic Arts and becomes Earth's newest protector against interdimensional threats.

    1h 55mRT Critic 89%RT Audience 86%
  • Logan(2017)

    In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an aging Wolverine emerges from exile to protect a young girl with his own powers. As he confronts his mortality and the sins of his past, he discovers that healing has limits and some violence cannot be undone.

    2h 15mRT Critic 93%RT Audience 91%
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2(2017)

    Phase 3

    Peter Quill finally meets his father—Ego, a Celestial who is literally a living planet. But as the Guardians uncover Ego's true nature, they learn that family isn't about blood. It's about the people who show up for you, even when it costs them everything.

    2h 16mRT Critic 85%RT Audience 87%
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming(2017)

    Phase 3

    After his thrilling debut in Civil War, Peter Parker returns to Queens and struggles to balance homework with superhero life. Eager to prove himself to Tony Stark, he stumbles onto a black market weapons operation run by the Vulture—a working-class dad with a serious grudge against the rich and powerful.

    2h 13mRT Critic 92%RT Audience 87%
  • Thor: Ragnarok(2017)

    Phase 3

    Thor loses his hammer, his father, and his home in rapid succession when Hela, the Goddess of Death, returns to claim Asgard. Stranded on a trash planet and forced to fight the Hulk in a gladiator arena, Thor must assemble a ragtag team to stop Ragnarok—the prophesied destruction of his world.

    2h 10mRT Critic 93%RT Audience 87%
  • Black Panther(2018)

    Phase 3

    After his father's death in Civil War, T'Challa returns to Wakanda to take the throne. But a challenger emerges from the shadows—Erik Killmonger, a man with Wakandan royal blood and a burning question: why did the most advanced nation on Earth abandon Black people everywhere else?

    2h 14mRT Critic 96%RT Audience 79%
  • Avengers: Infinity War(2018)

    Phase 3

    Thanos makes his move for the Infinity Stones. The Avengers, Guardians, and allied heroes unite to stop him, but despite their efforts, the Mad Titan succeeds in his plan.

    2h 29mRT Critic 85%RT Audience 92%
  • Deadpool 2(2018)

    Deadpool embraces a found family and encounters Cable, a time-traveling soldier from the future determined to prevent a catastrophic event. Together with a motley crew of misfits, Deadpool learns that the greatest power is caring about people.

    1h 59mRT Critic 83%RT Audience 85%
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp(2018)

    Phase 3

    Scott Lang is under house arrest for his Civil War involvement, but Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne need him for a rescue mission: Janet van Dyne is alive in the Quantum Realm, and they have a narrow window to bring her home.

    1h 58mRT Critic 87%RT Audience 78%
  • Venom(2018)

    Investigative journalist Eddie Brock loses everything—his career, his fiancée, his reputation—after confronting a biotech billionaire. When he accidentally bonds with an alien symbiote named Venom during a break-in at the man's lab, Eddie gains terrifying power and a voice in his head that wants to eat people. Together, they are the Lethal Protector.

    1h 52mRT Critic 31%RT Audience 80%
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse(2018)

    Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is bitten by a radioactive spider just as a crime boss's collider starts pulling other Spider-People in from across the multiverse — and it falls to Miles, guided by a washed-up alternate Peter Parker, to stop the machine before it destroys his own world.

    1h 57mRT Critic 97%RT Audience 93%
  • Captain Marvel(2019)

    Phase 3

    Set in 1995, a Kree warrior named Vers crash-lands on Earth with fragmented memories and discovers she's actually Carol Danvers, a U.S. Air Force pilot. As she uncovers the truth about her past, she becomes the most powerful hero the MCU has ever seen.

    2h 4mRT Critic 79%RT Audience 45%
  • Avengers: Endgame(2019)

    Phase 3

    Five years after the snap, the surviving Avengers discover a way to undo Thanos's victory: a time heist through their own history to recover the Infinity Stones. Reversing the snap will require significant sacrifice.

    3h 1mRT Critic 94%RT Audience 90%
  • X-Men: Dark Phoenix(2019)

    Jean Grey is consumed by a cosmic power that amplifies her worst impulses and destroys her ability to distinguish between her power and her identity. This film asks what happens when someone loses the boundaries that keep them human, and whether power without control is power at all.

    1h 53mRT Critic 22%RT Audience 64%
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home(2019)

    Phase 3

    Peter Parker just wants a normal European vacation with his classmates, but Nick Fury has other plans. When creatures called Elementals attack, a mysterious hero named Mysterio arrives to help—and Peter must decide if he's ready to step out of Tony Stark's shadow.

    2h 9mRT Critic 91%RT Audience 95%
  • The New Mutants(2020)

    Five newly discovered mutant teenagers, each responsible for a tragedy their own powers caused, wake up in a secretive facility where Dr. Cecilia Reyes says she's training them to join the X-Men — but she's really holding them for a corporation that wants them dead, and Dani Moonstar's own fear given form is coming to finish the job her powers already started.

    1h 34mRT Critic 36%RT Audience 55%
  • Black Widow(2021)

    Phase 4

    Set between Civil War and Infinity War, Natasha Romanoff confronts her past when a conspiracy within the Red Room forces her to reunite with her estranged spy family. To take down the man who made her, she'll need help from the sisters and parents she thought she'd left behind.

    2h 14mRT Critic 79%RT Audience 91%
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings(2021)

    Phase 4

    Shang-Chi has spent a decade hiding from his father, the immortal warlord who commands the Ten Rings. When assassins attack him in San Francisco, he is pulled back into a world of martial arts, ancient power, and a family legacy he cannot escape.

    2h 12mRT Critic 92%RT Audience 98%
  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage(2021)

    Eddie and Venom's domestic partnership is fraying—Venom wants freedom and brains; Eddie wants normalcy and chicken. When serial killer Cletus Kasady bites Eddie during a prison interview and spawns a new symbiote called Carnage, Eddie and Venom must reconcile their differences before a red symbiote paints San Francisco in blood. The post-credits scene changes everything.

    1h 37mRT Critic 58%RT Audience 83%
  • Eternals(2021)

    Phase 4

    Seven thousand years ago, the Celestials sent the Eternals to Earth to protect humanity from the Deviants. Their mission is complete, but when Deviants return and an apocalyptic truth emerges, these immortal heroes must reunite to save the planet.

    2h 36mRT Critic 48%RT Audience 77%
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home(2021)

    Phase 4

    Peter Parker's identity is exposed and his life is disrupted. Desperate, he asks Doctor Strange for a spell to make the world forget, but the magic goes wrong, tearing open the multiverse and bringing villains from other realities who all share one thing: they died fighting Spider-Man.

    2h 28mRT Critic 93%RT Audience 97%
  • Morbius(2022)

    Michael Morbius cures his lifelong blood disease with an experimental serum made from vampire bat DNA, gaining superhuman strength and speed at the cost of a hunger for blood — and has to stop his adoptive brother Milo, who takes the same cure and embraces the monster Michael is fighting not to become.

    1h 44mRT Critic 15%RT Audience 71%
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness(2022)

    Phase 4

    A teenager named America Chavez can punch holes between universes—and something is hunting her across the multiverse. Doctor Strange must protect her from a threat he never expected: Wanda Maximoff, corrupted by the Darkhold and willing to destroy any reality to reunite with her children.

    2h 6mRT Critic 73%RT Audience 85%
  • Thor: Love and Thunder(2022)

    Phase 4

    Gorr the God Butcher is murdering deities across the universe, and Thor must stop him. But the Thunder God isn't alone—Jane Foster has somehow become worthy of Mjolnir, transforming into the Mighty Thor. Together, they'll face a villain whose hatred of gods isn't entirely unjustified.

    1h 59mRT Critic 64%RT Audience 76%
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever(2022)

    Phase 4

    T'Challa is dead. Wakanda mourns its king while the world circles, hungry for vibranium. When a hidden underwater kingdom emerges with its own supply of the precious metal, Queen Ramonda and Princess Shuri must protect their nation—and decide who will become the next Black Panther.

    2h 41mRT Critic 84%RT Audience 93%
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania(2023)

    Phase 5

    Scott Lang is finally famous, finally happy—and then his daughter Cassie accidentally opens a portal to the Quantum Realm. The Lang-Pym family gets sucked into a subatomic universe ruled by Kang the Conqueror, a tyrant who's been exiled there for crimes across the multiverse.

    2h 4mRT Critic 46%RT Audience 81%
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3(2023)

    Phase 5

    Rocket Raccoon is dying, and to save him, the Guardians must confront his creator: the High Evolutionary, a mad scientist obsessed with building a perfect species. This is Rocket's origin story, and it's the most emotionally devastating Marvel film since Endgame.

    2h 30mRT Critic 82%RT Audience 94%
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse(2023)

    A year on, Miles Morales chases a new villain across the multiverse alongside Gwen Stacy, straight into the Spider-Society — a multiversal task force whose leader, Miguel O'Hara, insists Miles was never supposed to be Spider-Man at all, and that the tragedy about to hit his family is one of the "canon events" no Spider-Person is allowed to stop.

    2h 20mRT Critic 95%RT Audience 95%
  • The Marvels(2023)

    Phase 5

    Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan discover their powers are entangled—whenever one uses her abilities, she switches places with another. They must learn to work together to stop a Kree revolutionary seeking revenge on Captain Marvel for a war crime she doesn't remember committing.

    1h 45mRT Critic 63%RT Audience 79%
  • Madame Web(2024)

    Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who develops clairvoyant powers after a near-death accident on the job—and uses them to protect three teenagers marked for death by a man chasing the same power she has. Ezekiel Sims, empowered by the same Amazonian spider that killed her mother thirty years earlier, has seen a future where they kill him, and he intends to strike first.

    1h 56mRT Critic 10%RT Audience 53%
  • Deadpool & Wolverine(2024)

    Phase 5

    Wade Wilson's universe is dying because its "anchor being"—Logan—is dead. The TVA offers Wade a chance to save his world, but he'll need to find a Wolverine willing to fight. What he gets is the worst Wolverine in the multiverse, and together they'll face threats from across every dead timeline.

    2h 8mRT Critic 77%RT Audience 94%
  • Venom: The Last Dance(2024)

    Eddie and Venom are on the run, hunted by alien Xenophages sent by Knull—the imprisoned god of symbiotes—who needs the genetic key (Codex) created when Venom saved Eddie's life. Their road trip across America toward New York becomes a fight for survival that ends at Area 51, where Venom must make the ultimate sacrifice to keep Knull imprisoned forever.

    1h 49mRT Critic 40%RT Audience 79%
  • Kraven the Hunter(2024)

    Sergei Kravinoff, gifted animalistic strength and senses by a mysterious serum after a childhood hunting accident, becomes the vigilante hunter Kraven — and has to turn on the criminal empire his own father built, one built on a lie about who really killed his closest rival.

    2h 7mRT Critic 15%RT Audience 72%
  • Captain America: Brave New World(2025)

    Phase 5

    Sam Wilson navigates his role as the new Captain America while investigating a global conspiracy involving newly elected President Thaddeus Ross. When Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and a rebuilt Leader emerges with plans to reshape the world, Sam must prove that Captain America's power isn't in the serum but in the choice to stand up.

    1h 58mRT Critic 46%RT Audience 75%
  • Thunderbolts*(2025)

    Phase 5

    A group of antiheroes—Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, U.S. Agent, Ghost, and Taskmaster—are manipulated into a deadly trap by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. To survive, these discarded and broken operatives must work together and confront their pasts, ultimately becoming something none of them expected: heroes.

    2h 6mRT Critic 88%RT Audience 93%
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps(2025)

    Phase 6

    In an alternate 1960s, the world-famous Fantastic Four face their greatest challenge when Galactus, a cosmic entity that devours planets, arrives demanding their unborn child Franklin Richards—a being of limitless power. Reed and Sue must decide whether any sacrifice is too great to save their world.

    1h 55mRT Critic 86%RT Audience 90%
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day(2026)

    Phase 6

    Four years after Doctor Strange erased his identity from the world, Peter Parker has been protecting New York alone, cut off from MJ and Ned. When a telepathic mutant breaks Scorpion out of custody and turns her sights on the Department of Damage Control, Peter has to investigate a threat while his own powers start mutating beyond his control.

    2h 25mRT Critic 90%RT Audience 97%
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