Top 10 Movies: Superhero
The highest-graded superhero movies we have reviewed, best first.
The Dark KnightThe superhero film that stopped being one and became a crime epic instead.Read the review
Avengers: Infinity WarTen years of setup spent in one film, structured as the villain's story and ending on a loss.
The Dark Knight RisesOperatic, imperfect, and enormous; the trilogy finale earns its size.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseThe most inventive animation in American film, attached to about two thirds of a story.
Captain America: The Winter SoldierA paranoid seventies conspiracy thriller wearing a shield, and still the best film this studio has made.
The IncrediblesA superhero film about middle age, marriage and thwarted talent, made with more style than most live action blockbusters manage.
Captain America: Civil WarAn Avengers film in a Captain America suit, and the airport fight is the most purely enjoyable half hour in the run.
Batman BeginsThe origin story done so well it became the template for everyone else's.
Batman: Mask of the PhantasmThe best Batman origin story is a seventy six minute cartoon that nobody went to see in 1993.
Superman (1978)Christopher Reeve makes the impossible look effortless, and every cape film since has been borrowing from him.
