20 Best Superhero Movies Since The Dark Knight
8. Captain America: Civil War
About a month after a certain other film featuring superheroes fighting each other crashed and burned (hint: "MARTHA!"), the Marvel Cinematic Universe delivered what was basically the antithesis of that movie with Captain America: Civil War, a 'Hero Vs. Hero' movie filled with gripping drama, moral ambiguity and electrifying action scenes.
After a disappointing 2015 - the year in which Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man were released - the first film in the MCU's Phase 3 was a soaring return to form for Marvel Studios. It's not actually a very faithful adaptation of one of the most famous storylines in Marvel Comics, but the narrative is delivered with such skill and such passion that it's unlikely many, even devoted comic book fans, will give a damn.
Civil War's fantastic villain (Daniel Bruhl) puts the beloved heroes through the wringer like no other villain had prior to this and brings a ton of emotional depth to the surface, making this a thoroughly affecting viewing as well as an enormously thrilling one.
To this day, Captain America's third solo film is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's biggest triumphs and in the very drab cinematic year that was 2016, it was arguably one of the finest films released during that year.