Dark Phoenix

“Turner’s damaged conviction holds Dark Phoenix together, giving it a treacherous life force.”

Owen Gleiberman, Variety · 80

“For what is being called a final installment, it all tends to feel both anticlimactic and a little grim in the end.”

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly · 75

“To an extent, the movie waters down its moral complexity by introducing a flat-out villainess, who begins to guide Jean’s actions, thus absolving Jean of some moral responsibility. Still, it’s hard to complain when the villainess is played by Jessica Chastain, the best person in the world to play a cool, coiffed, composed entity of evil, looking for a new planet for her displaced people.”

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 75

“The final fight at the end is fantastic. It is by far the best X-Men fight in its franchise history (not counting Deadpool).”

Alan Ng, Film Threat · 70

“There are flashes of what made the franchise work. Turner, after stumbling through the part in the rocky terrain of X-Men: Apocalypse, finally gets to grapple with the emotional complexities of a woman whose gifts are the most constant curse.”

Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle · 67