Every Marvel Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
and Lance Cartelli, for Metacritic – March 14, 2016
Updated November 8, 2022 to add Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Marvel universe is far bigger than just a bunch of Avengers. Even before the release of 2008’s Iron Man—and the post-credit scene that launched a Cinematic Universe—Marvel was working to cook up movies based on everybody from Daredevil to Spidey, from Wolverine to the Silver Surfer.
Disney continues to release Marvel movies each year, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. In the gallery on this page, we rank every Marvel movie (including pre-MCU titles) released to date from worst to best by Metascore, which reflects the critical consensus for each film.
The 2008 reboot of The Punisher is filled with tons of gratuitous violence, but little else. To this day, Punisher: War Zone is the worst-performing Marvel film at the box office, with a worldwide gross of $10.1 million.
“The script isn't what matters here: This is a slasher movie with guns, and, uh, huh-huh, that's pretty cool.” —Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice