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Myth Opportunities: a review of ‘Eternals’

Director Chloe Zhao took upon herself the monumental task of telling the story of a pantheon of MCU’s strongest characters. With its 156-minute run time (reportedly making it the second longest-running MCU movie after ‘Avengers: End Game’), what Zhao does is not give us a standard movie with recognizable narrative beats or story structure. Instead, she weaves all the individual stories of these Eternals and creates a mythology that spans 7,000 years of human civilization. We…