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X-Men: Dark Phoenix

2019

Simon Kinberg

Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence ...

5.0

14,313

Sci-Fi. Action “Dark Phoenix” centers on Jean Grey and the much-feared Phoenix force. The story originated in the 1976-77 comic book series “Uncanny X-Men” when Grey is exposed the deadly radiation after returning from a mission in space.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] lacks the exclamation point fans have justifiably been hoping for at the end of a road that has embraced three prequels (...) The creative inspiration and public excitement that once fed the series has demonstrably dissipated."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] takes blockbuster gender politics a step further, using Jean’s mistress-of-the-universe state to forge an allegory of the rise of women that’s sharply compelling"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"By the time the 'X-Men' finally get around to doing what they do best (...) it all feels borderline tedious, like a game of superhuman rock-paper scissors (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A perfect storm of pointlessness (...) Safe, insubstantial, and skirting the surface of powerful ideas that even the kid-friendly animated series was unafraid to tackle."	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"[It] is pretty far-fetched even for a franchise about rare genetic mutations that allow people to read minds and shoot lasers with their eyes. It’s not bad, just crazy (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Not even Turner, with her radiant screen presence (...) can ultimately save 'Dark Phoenix' from its own failures of imagination."	NEG
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"[It] rises from the ashes of 2016’s silly, bloated 'X-Men: Apocalypse' — not a free bird, exactly, but better than what came before."	NEU
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"A disappointingly average superhero flick, with a familiar story, disinterested actors, some cool action sequences, and a whole lot of missed opportunities.	NEG
United States	Jim Vejvoda IGN	"It’s certainly better than the bloated and excessive 'X-Men: Apocalypse', but 'Dark Phoenix' is still a disappointing finale for this nearly 20-year-old series"	NEU
United States	Soren Andersen Seattle Times	"A joyless addition to the long-running 'X-Men' franchise (...) The makers have indicated 'Phoenix' is the culmination of the franchise’s long run. If true, it was definitely overdue (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"X-Hausting, X-Cruciating, and little reason to exist (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The point of a phoenix, dark or otherwise, is that it rises from the flames. But these are the flames in which this franchise has finally gone down (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A frustratingly anticlimactic, familiar tale of misunderstood mutants (...) Despite the serious tone, 'Dark Phoenix' mostly recycles the same themes and central conflicts at the heart of this franchise"	NEG
United Kingdom	Matthew Norman London Evening Standard	"Little makes sense on either the narrative or emotional level (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"The plot feels like it was scribbled on a menu after a drunken lunch (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"Slips into risible silliness early and often (...) There’s a stiffness in the screenplay, a gloomy inevitability to the plot, and Sophie Turner (...) may be slightly miscast as the young Jane Grey (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"Painfully conventional and terribly dull (...) [It] is so predictable that anyone with a vague knowledge of the superhero genre could write the thing themselves (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	John Byrne RTÉ	"The film rattles along and looks great (...) The final third offers a couple of classic fight sequences. Job done, really (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Graham Scannain	"With an ill-defined villain, a mundane group of mutants, this is hardly a Dark Phoenix and more a dull duck (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG

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