Avengers: Endgame’s Metacritic Score Is Surprisingly Lower Than Expected

Avengers: Endgame had its big Hollywood premiere in Los Angeles back on Monday, and now the review embargo for the film is being lifted, revealing an overwhelmingly strong Rotten Tomato score. But what about the film's Metacritic score?

Unlike Rotten Tomatoes, it seems like the film's Metacritic score isn't ridiculously high. While Rotten Tomatoes counts the number of positive scores and weighs them against the negative, Metacritic's score is based on a weighted average of the actual score given by reviews. Endgame might be enjoying a 98% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, but in Metacritic, it gets a 78 out of 100.

Though that places the film in the "generally favorable" category, Endgame's score on the site seems lower than what fans might have been expecting. Sure, it's ten points higher Avengers: Infinity War's Metacritic Score, but it's also ten points lower than Black Panther's. Right now the film has 45 reviews on the site, 42 of which are positive, 2 of which are mixed, and 1 negative review.

Still, despite these numbers, Endgame did manage to rake in several perfect 100 scores from critics. Chicago Sun-Times critic Richard Roeper was one of those critics, saying that fans might actually be dead if they didn't "feel the tears well up multiple times during this screen-filling, eye-popping, time-hopping, pulse-pounding, beautifully filmed superhero adventure for the ages."

Endgame has yet to receive its audience score though, something we feel like the film is going to ace once it makes its way to the big screen this Friday.

Avengers: Endgame premieres April 26, 2019.

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