For quite a long time, it felt as though all the new Marvel movies would be ranked above many that came before, as the franchise was on a serious roll that seemed unlikely to ever slow down. However, all things change, and we have now gotten to the point where solid critical hits like Thunderbolts* and decent-ish money-makers like The Fantastic Four: First Steps are interspersed with big-budget films that really don’t fare so well. Kumail Nanjiani, the star of one such 2021 MCU entry, Eternals, has now been very open about being “shattered” by his film’s performance and needing therapy to deal with it.
