July 12, 2021 Marvel Studios With this week’s release of Black Widow marking the 24th film in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, we look back at the superhero mega-franchise and offer our ranking of every instalment that has been released so far. We kick things off with... 24. Thor: The Dark World (2013) The second solo film of Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder is a diverting mess in which he isn’t even the most interesting part – that would be his wicked brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston). From Natalie Portman’s astrophysicist conveniently becoming the host of a mighty energy source to the romantic subplot of Darcy the intern, this plays less like a superhero movie than an arbitrary piece of cosmic nonsense.