Marvel’s Best Post-'Endgame' Movie Hid Its Greatest Weapon in Plain Sight

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With 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, director Destin Daniel Cretton took the Marvel Cinematic Universe to new realms, with a new lead hero played by former stuntman Simu Liu (as well as a sidekick played by comedian Awkwafina) and new lore for audiences. While most of the Marvel films from the past decade have become a bit mired in details and mythology (and homework), Shang-Chi avoided that by largely functioning as a standalone movie. Built on massive action set pieces and a frequently fun and creative use of martial arts, Shang-Chi also felt different from the more uniform, concrete gray aesthetic that the Marvel movies have stuck to since Avengers: Age Of Ultron.

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