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52 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFor what is being called a final installment, it all tends to feel both anticlimactic and a little grim in the end.
- 63IGNJim VejvodaIGNJim VejvodaDark Phoenix is ultimately yet another fumbled take on the classic saga from the Marvel Comics, albeit one without the side plots of The Last Stand. Add to it a jarringly uneven latter half and some underdeveloped cosmic villains, and Dark Phoenix is fortunate to have not fully ended the X-Men’s current big screen run on a completely down note.
- 63New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiPretty 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.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s just that the whole affair feels winded, an argument — Will humans finally accept the mutants among us? — that’s exhausted everybody concerned, with many involved somehow knowing that those “Days of Future Past” are returning.
- 49TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiIt’s just a disappointingly average superhero flick, with a familiar story, disinterested actors, some cool action sequences, and a whole lot of missed opportunities.
- 42The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezIts atrocious, expository dialogue, cumbersome plot, whiplashing character motivations, unintentionally funny moments, and often corny costumes, ensures, Dark Phoenix will be remembered in the annals of mediocre movies (and for somehow utterly wasting Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and James McAvoy in the same film).
- 40ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerThe whole movie hinges on Jean Grey, a character we hardly know (the Sophie Turner version was introduced in a minor role in X-Men: Apocalypse) and her relationships to a team of heroes we’ve hardly seen.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe 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.
- 38Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.