This Is the Best Marvel Movie of All Time

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Box Office Mojo, the movie research site, keeps a category it calls franchises. These are groups of related movies that often involve the same characters, and can range across several dozen films. The Harry Potter movies are on the list, as is the Batman series. Among these franchises, the one that has made the most money is labeled the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” which includes films about all of the Marvel characters. In all, the 28 movies in this franchise has domestic gross box office sales of $8.9 billion. And more of them come out each year.

The top-grossing movies in the franchise are Avengers: Endgame with a gross of $859 million. It is followed by Black Panther at $700 million, Avengers: Infinity War at $678 million, The Avengers at $623 million. Disney bought Marvel in 2009 for $4 billion, and the investment has paid off handily.

Not all Marvel movies have been of equal quality. While many have been financially successful, some have received mixed reviews from both critics and moviegoers alike.

To determine the best Marvel movie, 24/7 Tempo developed an index based on several measures from the Internet Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes. The index is a composite of each movie’s IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes audience score, and Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score. All ratings were weighted equally. Data was collected in September 2021. Supplemental data on domestic box office and production budgets by movie came from industry data site The Numbers.

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According to this scoring system, the highest-rated Marvel movie is “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: released in 2018. Here are the details:

> Combined index score: 2.79
> IMDb rating: 8.4/10
> RT audience score: 93%
> Tomatometer score: 97%
> Worldwide box office: $375,654,619
> Starring: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a computer-animated movie featuring the character Miles Morales in an alternative setting called the “Spider-Verse.” It tells how Morales becomes the new Spider-Man and joins other Spider-People to save New York City from the Kingpin.

Click here to read Ranking Every Marvel Movie from Worst To Best

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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