Eleven years after Iron Man was introduced to unsuspecting summer crowds, Marvel Studios wraps up their unprecedented 22 film “Infinity Saga” with a rousing victory lap that bursts with emotional catharsis, playful nostalgia, and a flurry of memorable hero moments.

Already on course to become the most successful film of the franchise, if not of all time, Avengers: Endgame raises the roof on what long-form narrative cinema can be.

Since taking the reins on Captain America: The Winter Soldier , directorial siblings Anthony and Joe Russo have quickly become custodians of the Avengers Universe, bottling a pitch perfect cocktail of superhero spectacle, irreverent humour, and disarming pathos, across four of the series’ most pivotal chapters.

With last year’s Avengers: Infinity War , they delivered a blindsiding cliffhanger that saw arch-villain Thanos victorious, and many of the series’ most popular and profitable heroes reduced to dust.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here