All 7 MCU Movies Starring Chris Evans, Ranked

Every MCU Movie Starring Chris Evans, Ranked Image via Marvel Studios Published Jul 23, 2026, 4:57 PM EDT Jeremy has more than 2600 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly watch and write about almost anything, from old Godzilla films to gangster flicks to samurai movies to classic musicals to the French New Wave to the MCU... well, maybe not the Disney+ shows. His favorite directors include Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino, Werner Herzog, John Woo, Bob Fosse, Fritz Lang, Guillermo del Toro, and Yoji Yamada. He's also very proud of the fact that he's seen every single Nicolas Cage movie released before 2022, even though doing so often felt like a tremendous waste of time. He's plagued by the question of whether or not The Room is genuinely terrible or some kind of accidental masterpiece, and has been for more than 12 years (and a similar number of viewings). When he's not writing lists - and the occasional feature article - for Collider, he also likes to upload film reviews to his Letterboxd profile (username: Jeremy Urquhart) and Instagram account. He has achieved his 2025 goal of reading all 13,467 novels written by Stephen King, and plans to spend the next year or two getting through the author's 82,756 short stories and 105,433 novellas. Sign in to your Collider account Marvel is back? Maybe? Specifically, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which used to mean “most Marvel movies,” but then a deal was made with Sony for Spider-Man, and Disney acquired the rights for the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and now the MCU is pretty much Marvel. Take Chris Evans, for example, who used to play characters in two cinematic universes, being Johnny Storm/Human Torch in two Fantastic Four movies before becoming Steve Rogers/Captain America in the MCU. Then, come Deadpool & Wolverine, he showed up as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in an official MCU movie. He’s been in a lot of superhero movies, is the main thing, and he’s set to be in at least one more, with Avengers: Doomsday coming out at the end of 2026 (and the marketing for that movie is pretty keen to show off how Evans is back). Chris Evans has been in the MCU since he was 30, and maybe he’ll be like Hugh Jackman, doing it until he’s 90. For now, though, here are the movies he’s starred in, ranked from worst to best, not including those MCU movies where he had a cameo or uncredited role (so, sorry, but no Thor: The Dark World, Spider-Man: Homecoming, or Deadpool & Wolverine). 7 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' (2015) Image via Marvel Studios While Avengers: Age of Ultron is probably the weakest of the Avengers movies to date, it’s still honestly pretty good. Saying that feels like a hot take, considering some of the backlash that exists around the movie and everything, but then the hotness of such a hot take is lessened by the fact that it’s still in last place here. Hmm. That’s more a testament to the movies that Evans has had a big role in being largely very good. He hasn’t starred in a miss like Thor: Love and Thunder yet, and he wasn’t in the worst of the Captain America movies (the fourth, 2025’s Brave New World). That puts more pressure on Avengers: Doomsday, which can avoid being an outright disappointment if it’s at least better than Age of Ultron. And Age of Ultron is honestly still quite good, for what it is. And it might be a little stronger nowadays, compared to 2015, with some moments in it getting paid off some years later, like Captain America almost moving Mjolnir, and Thor’s vision hinting at Thor: Ragnarok and/or the third Avengers movie. 6 'Captain America: The First Avenger' (2011) There’s a quaintness to Captain America: The First Avenger that makes it feel, somehow, more refreshing when watched nowadays, versus watching it in 2011. Not that it was bad in 2011, or anything, but the MCU hadn’t fully developed a style at this point, so the first Captain America has some things in it that are a bit odd, in hindsight, which is something that can also be said about the first Thor, which was released in 2011, too. Captain America: The First Avenger mostly takes place during the Second World War, and serves as a good origin story for its titular character, and then speaking of the title, it also goes a long way toward explaining why he’s earned the title of “The First Avenger.” It ends on an effectively bittersweet note, too, getting Captain America to a modern-day setting, which in turn sets the stage for the Captain America sequels and his prominent role in the Avengers movies to come. 5 'Captain America: Civil War' (2016) Image via Marvel Studios Essentially an Avengers movie, even though it’s got “Captain America” in the title, Captain America: Civil War follows on from Avengers: Age of Ultron very effectively, with only Thor and the Hulk sitting things out, in terms of the core team. There are also plenty of other heroes thrown into the Civil War (of sorts) that’s fought in Civil War, with Black Panther and the MCU’s version of Spider-Man making their first appearances here, too. There’s a further fracturing of the team as well, which puts all the Avengers and other heroes at a disadvantage come the next Avengers movie, even if all the main participants in the “Civil War” technically survive the battle. It all makes for good drama, and it is pretty neat how many things Captain America: Civil War balances, in terms of storylines and characters, all without going too far and feeling too close to genuinely overstuffed. 4 'The Avengers' (2012) Image via Marvel Studios For a while, The Avengers was as big and ambitious as the MCU got, which is kind of funny to think back on. Even more than that, it might've seemed like too difficult a task in the lead-up to 2012, expecting people to follow along with several movies to fully understand what was going on narratively, and then to balance half-a-dozen superheroes all at once, but The Avengers well and truly pulled it off. The third and fourth Avengers movies are probably better, and some might (understandably) feel Captain America: Civil War more or less functions as an even better Avengers movie, but The Avengers (2012) is still admirable, and still pretty cool… and fun to watch. It’s a very good blockbuster, and Chris Evans is more than solid in it (as is everyone, with the performances here going a long way toward making these iterations of these particular characters so endearing). 3 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019) Image via Marvel Studios Avengers: Endgame felt like it was designed to be a perfect send-off to several characters, including Captain America. The distance between it and Avengers: Doomsday is something, considering Evan’s seven starring roles in the MCU came between 2011 and 2019, and then there’s been about 7.5 years now between Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Doomsday… but still, it will be a tall order to fully justify bringing him back in a big way, a little like how Deadpool & Wolverine had its work cut out for it side-stepping the perfect finale that was Logan. Avengers: Endgame is still extremely impressive, even if it doesn’t feel entirely like a finale now the way it might've back in 2019. Taken on its own, though, Avengers: Endgame is still extremely impressive, even if it doesn’t feel entirely like a finale now the way it might've back in 2019. It does give Captain America and the original members of the Avengers a lot more screen time, versus the third Avengers movie, and the final battle is undeniably grand, as a climax. If you wanted to tap out of the MCU right here, that’d honestly be understandable. 2 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' (2014) Image via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Standing as a big improvement on the already very good Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier has been showered with praise for more than a decade now, and is often singled out as a highlight of the overall MCU, but such praise (or even glazing?) is well-deserved. It’s a movie that gets to further explore Captain America being tested in the 21st century, with conflicts being morally murkier, and people – both good and bad – seeming less trustworthy. And there’s another way Captain America’s past catches up with him, regarding the titular “Winter Soldier,” though if that was ever a twist, it’s hard not to know about it now. And the same goes for what happens with S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. Hydra here. Still, it’s neat that Captain America: The Winter Soldier went to the places it did, and that it gave the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe something of a shot in the arm going forward. 1 'Avengers: Infinity War' (2018) Image via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Even if Avengers: Endgame was longer, and had an even bigger final battle, Avengers: Infinity War still feels like the biggest and most ambitious MCU movie to date. It juggled so many moving pieces, meaning that important characters like Captain America himself have supporting roles here, rather than feeling like main characters the way they might've in past Avengers movies, but that’s done so that as many established heroes as possible can get some screen time. You get almost everyone here, and that’s part of the reason Thanos feels like such a genuine threat; like, there has to be pretty much a whole galaxy of heroes going up against him, as he seeks to eradicate half of all life in the universe. Nowadays, universes are colliding, and maybe Doctor Doom wants to take out the multiverse, rather than “just” one universe, but time will tell whether it manages to feel as grand and epic in scope as the conflict fought in Avengers: Infinity War. Avengers: Infinity War Release Date April 27, 2018 Runtime 149 minutes Cast Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark / Iron Man Chris Evans Steve Rogers / Captain America