Why audiences can’t stop crying over ‘Avengers: Endgame’

Published April 29, 2019 9:57pm ET



Marvel’s last “Avengers” film has the world in tears.

After “Avengers: Endgame” opened to a record-breaking weekend at the box office, raking in $1.2 billion worldwide, the film made audiences laugh, applaud, cry, and even require medical assistance: One fan in China had to go to the hospital after bawling so hard during the film that she began to hyperventilate.

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