Logan
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: March 3, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
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46
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4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 2, 2017
The R-rating does represent truth in advertising, and it has conferred a kind of liberation on what strikes me, a violence-averse moviegoer at heart, as the best superhero film to come out of the comic-book world, and I’m not forgetting Tim Burton’s “Batman” or Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight.” Read full review
100
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubMar 2, 2017
Logan takes its indestructible metal claws to comic book movie norms and destroys them, and it’s a wonderful thing. Read full review
100
ConsequenceMichael RoffmanFeb 17, 2017
This is a filmmaker’s film, a fully realized statement that oozes with the assurance and confidence of a hungry visionary who not only knows what he wants to do but how to do it. Read full review
91
MTV NewsAmy NicholsonMar 2, 2017
Logan is the rare action flick in which the quiet moments are as compelling as any of the fights. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Mar 1, 2017
What’s special about Logan is that it manages to deliver the visceral goods, all the hardcore Wolverine action its fans could desire, while still functioning as a surprisingly thoughtful, even poignant drama—a terrific movie, no “comic-book” qualifier required. Read full review
91
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 28, 2017
James Mangold's Logan is an uncommonly mature comic book movie, practically from another universe unto itself. It's a movie demanding and deserving to be taken seriously, an elegy for a mutant. Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoFeb 17, 2017
It’s not just one of the best superhero movies ever – it’s a damn-fine cinematic representation of the human condition in all its agonizing forms. Read full review
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonMar 2, 2017
Logan isn’t the typical superhero flick. It’s more like a Western, with Jackman turning in a performance that’s reminiscent of Clint Eastwood in his Man With No Name days. Read full review
88
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 2, 2017
More than any other comic book character outside of Nolan’s Batman, Wolverine has evolved. With his glimpse into what superhero movies can be, James Mangold has given us something sadly lacking in recent genre entries: hope. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 2, 2017
If Jackman and Stewart are serious about this being their mutual X-Men swan song, they could not have crafted a more heartfelt valedictory. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 1, 2017
For all its moodiness and melancholy, Logan is also a rip-roaring action film — and it’s wickedly funny at times as well. Read full review
88
New York PostKyle SmithMar 1, 2017
It’s a captivating throwback that promises to lead the genre away from sci-fi flash and trickery. I’d rank it beside “X-Men: Days of Future Past” among the best X-Men entries. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 28, 2017
Logan is the rare blockbuster that could be a game-changer. It will certainly change the way we look at other superhero movies and how history judges the entire MCU and DC Universe of films. Read full review
88
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 17, 2017
Easily the best Wolverine outing, Logan is The Dark Knight of the mutant-filled X-franchise, a gripping film that transcends the comic-book genre by saying something important — and for Logan, that means coming to grips with needing loved ones in his life. Read full review
83
The Film StageFeb 17, 2017
A rather brilliant mesh of dystopian and superhero tropes that proves to be as entertaining as it is timely. Read full review
81
The VergeTasha RobinsonFeb 17, 2017
The weight of graphic, grotesque violence hangs over the entire movie. But the daring emotional violence lingers longer, well after the lights go down on the final shot. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMar 2, 2017
The film is stunningly bleak and staggeringly violent. Major characters go down in showers of blood and gore. I’ve seen worse and so, probably, have you, but never from such an essentially wholesome corporate enterprise with a target audience so young and hopeful. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 2, 2017
Logan is a strong argument for bringing the comic-book movie down to earth. It solidly hits its marks as it moves the franchise furniture around, and features striking special-effects scenes in which the world shudders to a near standstill. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 2, 2017
Logan is a serious take on the comic-book genre, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in particular, and it’s a good one. Not a great one, though, which it might've been if it hadn’t gotten in its own way, overdoing it with its R-rated freedoms. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Mar 2, 2017
A stand-alone adventure, it’s also a salute to a series, a character and a quietly committed actor. Read full review
80
SlateJonathan L. FischerMar 1, 2017
It is not a superhero flick as we have come to know the genre but a road movie and a Western, one that plays with the myth of the aging cowboy. Read full review
80
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMar 1, 2017
It's R-rated because it has grown-up things to say -- things about mortality, aging, guilt, regret, and about what happens when superheroes, tired of being superheroes, start thinking very dark, very human thoughts. Read full review
80
Village VoiceBilge EbiriFeb 22, 2017
In Logan, we have an example of a superhero story taken to new extremes and a franchise to a spare, sad, apocalyptic finish (or “finish”), with R-rated action scenes that are both rousing and unbearably violent. Read full review
80
CineVueMatthew AndersonFeb 22, 2017
Amongst the swearing, past gripes and resentments exhibited by wearying central players there is humour, compassion and a great deal more heart and soul than we have come to expect from the rote, by-the-numbers dialogue of Marvels past. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinFeb 17, 2017
When it comes to playing a properly magnetic anti-hero with a gruff ’70s-cinema exterior and a dark reservoir of inner depth, Jackman really is the best at what he does. Read full review
80
Total FilmJames MottramFeb 17, 2017
This is a fine, fitting finale for the movies’ greatest mutant. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 17, 2017
The heart of the movie is the unexpectedly poignant relationship between Xavier and Logan: I’d be tempted to call them the Steptoe and Son of the mutant world, although in fact Logan goes into Basil Fawlty mode at one stage with his own pickup truck, attempting to trash it – perhaps to teach it a lesson. Logan is a forthright, muscular movie which preserves the X-Men’s strange, exotic idealism. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonFeb 17, 2017
Overall, Logan is something rather special: a moving and mournful story of life at the end of the line, and the perfect blockbuster for these embittered times. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinFeb 17, 2017
Logan is a film for people, like me, who thought the only good bit of X-Men: Apocalypse was Michael Fassbender crying in the woods, and left the cinema wishing that had been the whole thing. It’s something no-one could have expected: a creatively risky superhero movie. And it deserves to pay off. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanFeb 17, 2017
Each time the violence explodes, it’s slashingly satisfying, because it’s earned, and also because Mangold knows just how to stage it. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenFeb 17, 2017
Seamlessly melding Marvel mythology with Western mythology, James Mangold has crafted an affectingly stripped-down stand-alone feature, one that draws its strength from Hugh Jackman’s nuanced turn as a reluctant, all but dissipated hero. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 1, 2017
As light on his feet as he is as a musical-comedy showman, Jackman is perversely even more pleasurable when he’s popping neck veins from the effort of heavy drama. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 2, 2017
Mangold mostly lets Logan stand as a showcase for Jackman, that rare performer who can take an already-iconic figure and own him completely, to the point where it’s hard to divorce the two. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 2, 2017
It has, simultaneously, the exhilarating feel of a departure and the finality of a full stop. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 2, 2017
Jackman and Stewart’s fond, easy dynamic helps to balance some very provocative brutality, as the movie pushes Wolverine’s berserk nature to graphic new extremes. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenFeb 28, 2017
Jackman and Stewart give perhaps the most heartfelt performances that they’re ever brought to an “X-Men” movie. Though the tone of the movie is pervasively downbeat, they’re both going out on a very high note. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 18, 2017
Logan is a bloody and noble finale to Jackman’s turn with the sideburns and metal claws. It broods and growls, lashes out and swears, and Jackman is magnificent at every one of those. Read full review
75
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthFeb 17, 2017
A movie with the bleakest vision of Wolverine yet, but also hands down the best treatment the character has received on the big screen in the fifteen plus years Jackman has inhabited the role. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 17, 2017
Logan isn’t always a satisfying movie, but there’s a very satisfying answer to those questions waiting for viewers at the end of it. Satisfying not only because Mangold resolves things with some brilliantly expressive imagery, or because he endows this story with a no-shits-left-to-give honesty that defies its origins and justifies its spectacular violence and salty vocabulary, but because it proves how iconic Jackman has made this character over the last 17 years. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezFeb 17, 2017
In Logan, the clawed mutant Wolverine finally gets to slash through the constraints of a kid-friendly PG-13 rating, and the result is bloody, vicious fun. The squeamish will avert their eyes, and young children should not be allowed anywhere near this movie, no matter how many X-Men action figures they own. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMar 2, 2017
While this carnage is defensible in theory, and while the filmmakers have taken pains not to linger on the horrific brutality Logan and his terrible claws inflict, the gruesome situations presented, including more than one beheading, work at cross purposes with the film's more serious intent and reminds us that a scot-free escape from the strictures of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not in the cards. Read full review
70
ScreenCrushMatt SingerFeb 17, 2017
It’s a mature consideration of the ideas underpinning its comic-book motifs. It’s also easily the best Wolverine movie of the three, and an impressive sendoff for Jackman’s version of the character. Read full review
70
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeFeb 17, 2017
Whether or not the “Wolverine” movies have a future — Jackman swears this is his last go-round — Logan is an exceedingly entertaining one. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMar 3, 2017
Set in 2029, Logan is the closest thing to a valedictory the Marvel universe has yet concocted. Depending on how sentimental you are about these things – me, not much – it’s a bittersweet event. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyFeb 17, 2017
The loner has to learn to put someone else first. It’s both as manipulative and hokey as that sounds, but occasionally it works well enough that you might find yourself getting choked up against your better judgment. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJake ColeFeb 17, 2017
It recognizes that the thinly veiled secret of Wolverine’s loner act is that he’s always been a cog of some kind. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 2, 2017
Logan is deadly serious, and while its gamer-style killing sprees are meant to be excitingly brutal, I found them numbing and, in the climax, borderline offensive. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneFeb 27, 2017
When Logan and Laura unleash their furious scythes nothing feels settled or satisfied. The world grinds on, fruitlessly weary and wild. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 17, 2017
Boasting a few nifty action sequences and the always-compelling Jackman, Logan self-consciously aspires to retire this iteration of the steel-clawed hero with epic grandeur, and the results are often rousingly bleak. And yet, the risks taken...only make the formulaic redemption story and clichéd emotional underpinnings increasingly frustrating. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 17, 2017
The picture is mostly tedious and unpleasant, which is a shame for the sake of the performers. Jackman works hard here, and his performance does away with vanity altogether. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedMar 7, 2017
Logan is another heinous and sophomoric waste of Hugh Jackman ‘s time and considerable talent and another expensive throwaway aimed at milking money out of people who still read comic books. Color it stupid. Read full review
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