Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings

...it has an immense soulfulness that other MCU movies, superhero movies, and action movies in general should take notes from.

...doesn't just pull off a fun western xuanhuan, but makes it feel like a door being opened for future Marvel films.

The cast is stellar. Liu knocks it out of the park as Shang-Chi, adding a tad of levity to the known-to-be-serious comic book character.

...a Technicolor whirlwind of a film whose explosive fight choreography and dense mythology are leavened by a sweet and surprisingly nimble script.

... an action-adventure fantasy in which the stylised, anti-gravity qinggong fighting styles of wuxia fiction are effectively brought into alignment with Avenger-type superpowers.

... always enthralling and with a zest that, unlike the backward-looking Black Widow, firmly steers the MCU into previously uncharted territory.