The 11 best superhero movies of the decade, according to critics

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 83%

Adjusted score: 108.188%

Worldwide box office: $364.5 million

What critics said: "What 'Shazam!' lacks most obviously is gravitas. And grimness. Also bleakness, darkness and relentless self-seriousness. In other words, it's terrific fun." — Wall Street Journal

Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 87%

Adjusted score: 108.548%

Worldwide box office: $880 million

What critics said: "An utter gas, a fast and very funny superflick that inserts Spidey into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe without ever losing sight of what makes him unique and beloved." — The Atlantic

Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 95%

Adjusted score: 111.032%

Worldwide box office: $1.13 billion

What critics said: "There's no endgame in sight for Spider-Man. As played by Brit wunderkind Tom Holland in a whoosh of boyish enthusiasm and lovesick angst, Spidey is flying higher than ever in a thrill ride that's bursting with laughs and real-deal surprises." — Rolling Stone

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 84%

Adjusted score: 110.211%

Worldwide box office: $1.24 billion

What critics said: "Do you remember when superhero movies were light-hearted popcorn fare instead of overwrought epics? 'The Incredibles 2,' which is absolutely delightful, recalls that time." — Salon

Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 90%

Adjusted score: 110.283%

Worldwide box office: $619 million

What critics said: "Logan is a family drama, an action thriller and an epic superhero story. If this is indeed [Hugh] Jackman's last Wolverine film, he's going out in heartfelt, high-class style." — Associated Press

Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 87%

Adjusted score: 110.559%

Worldwide box office: $854 million

What critics said: "This viewer was wowed in fits and starts, but mostly filled with a new, ungrudging respect for [Chris] Hemsworth." — Los Angeles Times

Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 88%

Adjusted score: 112.212%

Worldwide box office: $821.8 million

What critics said: "'Wonder Woman' is a superhero movie, and it fulfills the heroic and mythic demands of that genre, but it's also an entry in the genre of wisdom literature that shares hard-won insights and long-pondered paradoxes of the past with a sincere intimacy." — The New Yorker

Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 93%

Adjusted score: 113.494%

Worldwide box office: $375.5 million

What critics said: "The film's wild and contradictory aesthetic — elements of which clash against each other like some kind of dissonant cartoon jazz — dazzlingly explodes the outmoded idea that superhero movies have to look a certain way." — Indiewire

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 90%

Adjusted score: 117.72%

Worldwide box office: $2.8 billion

What critics said: "The MCU will go on and on, but this chapter — and the American pragmatism vs. American ideals bromance that drove it — have well and truly come to their 'Excelsior! Nuff said!' moment." — San Diego Reader

Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 79%

Adjusted score: 119.105%

Worldwide box office: $1.35 billion

What critics said: "With uncanny timing, Marvel takes its superheroes into a domain they've never inhabited before and is all the better for it in Black Panther." — Hollywood Reporter