An early pair of Marvel Studios stumbles, The Incredible Hulk and Thor: The Dark World, had once been widely accepted as the weakest MCU movies. According to Rotten Tomatoes, however, Phase Four’s Eternals and Phase Five’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania displaced them—the only two films to rank as “rotten” on the website. Phase Four’s Thor: Love and Thunder also sat low on the list, a sharp fall from grace for director Taika Waititi after his wildly popular Thor: Ragnarok. This, surely, must have rankled Feige. In 2017, when the MCU still enjoyed an unblemished record of “fresh” reviews, he
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