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Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Writers: Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, based on the Marvel comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Maximiliano Hernandez Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and a band of allies (Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and Anthony Mackie) go up against SHIELD itself because of an alarmingly authoritarian protocol that is about to go online.   This may be the best movie that Marvel Studios has made, produced during the Golden Age of the MCU by the Russo brothers, who would go on to helm three more fine Marvel projects in succession.  In addition to great action, this film pays homage to spy films and 70s-style paranoid thrillers.  Robert Redford is on hand to provide some genre credibility as SHIELD bigwig Alexander Pierce, who has some ideas about how the power of an organization like SHIELD should be wie...

A ranking of all the horror films that have been reviewed on this blog. 144   Jonah Hex (2010) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2023/10/jonah-hex-2010.html 143 Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2024/10/beyond-black-rainbow-2010.html 142 Night of the Demons (1988) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2020/10/night-of-demons-1988.html 141 House on Haunted Hill (1959) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2024/10/house-on-haunted-hill-1959.html 140 The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-last-exorcism-part-ii-2013.html 139 Monsturd (2003) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2020/09/monsturd-2003.html 138 Hannibal (2001)  https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2023/10/hannibal-2001.html 137 The Gift (2000) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-gift-2000.html 136 Infection (2004) https://thericochetreviewer.blogspot.com/2022/10/infection-aka-kansen-2004.html 135...