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  Review by romana ★★★★

  i loved 'erik don't do that part 3'

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  Review by Jay ★★½ 5

  does moira mactaggert have a point in these movies other than to show charles xavier might not be gay because you cant fool me

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  Review by Evan ★★★ 8

  Also known as X-Men: The Mummy Returns Part 2. 

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★

  fine, here's the obligatory three stars for any movie that has the balls to show magneto cathartically tear down auschwitz.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 5

  "When Nightcrawler broke into the White House at the start of 2003’s X2, it was a watershed moment in the history of comic book movies. Here was one of comics’ most fantastical characters - a blue-skinned, three-fingered German demon with a pointy, prehensile tail and teleportation powers - brought to life with all of his outlandish quirks and powers intact, showcased in a sequence that was thrilling and utterly convincing. It was something no one had ever seen before. It was truly uncanny.

  It is telling of the state of superhero movies in 2016 that when Nightcrawler returns in the new X-Men: Apocalypse, he’s treated basically as a throw-in background character and his powers are used with little fanfare, mostly…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★ 11

  See what you want to do when you cast one of the most handsome men on the planet is bury him beneath 60 pounds of hideous blue makeup, have him talk in a hilariously goofy voice, and only do incredibly uncool things like stick his hand on a television screen and moan “Lllllleeeeeeearniiiiiiing.” That’s just smart business sense!

  Also, in the last scene of Days of Future Past, Wolverine is fished out of the water by Mystique disguised as Stryker. In this movie, it’s revealed that Wolverine has been held captive for ten years by ... the real Stryker? Great work everyone! Super glad everyone was paying attention!

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  Review by Jasmine ★★½ 7

  I'm so glad that Charles and Erik got back together after Erik's affair with Apocalypse. Cherik lives 🙏🏼

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  Review by al paciknows ★★★ 3

  charles in his thotty little purple jumper look going to try and convince his ex-lover to not destroy the world again

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  Review by Grooveman ★★½ 5

  When I was writing this my phone autocorrected X-Men Apocalypse to X-Men Apologize. That sounds about right.

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  Review by mulaney ★★★½ 4

  "you're my... [pause] i'm here for my family too."

  I'M STILL MAD

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 12

  Flailing, repetitive, shapeless, silly, yeah to all that, but stick with it and you'll find one of the most tantalizingly bugnuts entries in this series, one that mostly even sheds the usual bread-and-butter thuddingly obvious social politics and the recent episodes' clumsy Cold War shenanigans for something way weirder and thornier. Seems actively engaged with the idea of these characters' ceaseless recapitulation of emotional baggage and secret pain and cyclical re-radicalization, at the end even dredging up from the depths the raw material of past trauma in order to form it into new structures. Doesn't even peak with such craziness as Magneto laying waste to a deserted Auschwitz or a nuclear Armageddon reflected in Stan Lee's stupid sunglasses. These movies will probably never get back to the relative simplicity, dare I say elegance, of X2, and accordingly this is a total mess, but wow what a mess.

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  Review by mulaney ★★★½ 2

  [me lovingly, to erik]: you can do whatever you want forever!