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4. The Eternals
The MCU is currently on the cinematic hangover of the century following the monumental events of Endgame (2019), but eventually something has to begin the rebuilding process.
Sure, we've had Far From Home (2019), and we're due a Black Widow movie in the near future, but they are movies grounded in the canon we know and are familiar with. They don't really look to build the new era. The Eternals is the first step into the unknown after Endgame, and there is a lot of pressure for it to take a good, strong first step.
That doesn't mean it will buckle necessarily, but you have to hold your breathe for it to be the great first chapter in the new Marvel era that it needs to be. To establish a new line of characters that fans will relate to, as well as a world and society they will invest in, it will take a few strokes of Marvel Studios genius.
Iron Man did an amazing job back in 2008 of catapulting the MCU off the ground, but for Marvel Studios to do it again, it's going to take careful writing and great characters.