The superhero genre dominated the 2010s. More than any other film genre, superheroes had the world in a chokehold, greatly benefiting from the groundwork done throughout the 2000s by The Dark Knight and the X-Men and Spider-Man trilogies. The rise of the MCU in 2012 was the catalyst for the genre to overwhelm pop culture, become the definitive form of entertainment; what noir and Westerns were in the '40s and '50s, superheroes were in the 2010s.

Not everyone is a fan of superhero cinema, and it's understandable; it's quite formulaic and features characters that not everyone will find appealing, let alone entertaining. Yet, considering it was the phenomenon of the 2010s, some movies of the decade are simply a must-watch, even for those who aren't especially apprecia

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