Dark Phoenix is certainly bad for the normal reasons a movie is bad, but it’s the passionless obligation with which the film operates that the most dispiriting aspect about it.

| Jul 22, 2024

All the heart and intricacy that once made the franchise so distinct has been disintegrated. Unlike the titular character however, nothing stronger rises from the ashes. Only something devoid of passion.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Dark Phoenix ends up being what everyone feared it would be: a movie that didn’t matter, at all. One that didn’t even try to pay homage to an extraordinary saga that notably influenced the comic-book genre.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2023

This fresh attempt is not poorly made exactly as The Last Stand was; instead it is a fairly risible effort for all new reasons.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 19, 2023

This is not the movie that Dark Phoenix deserves.

| Apr 11, 2023

I can’t in good conscience recommend that anyone spend their hard earned money to go see this film in theaters, but if you are a die-hard X-Men fan like me you might find that it’s a surprisingly fun ride.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 22, 2023

These Fox X-Men films have been nothing if not inconsistent. But I think "Dark Phoenix" is in the top half of this franchise, due to the honest performances, great action, and decent story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2023

This time they do justice to the story, not without a few kinks, but still in a way I found entertaining and satisfying.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

It's not that Dark Phoenix is a complete disaster - it's that the franchise hasn't changed much in the last 20 years, while the rest of the superhero genre has continued to grow and evolve.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 2, 2022

There are some pretty cheesy lines in this movie that I hope I'll never have to hear again.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Sep 4, 2021

It's a disappointment, but not a dumpster fire.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2021

A final farewell that rings like a death knell...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Not the worst film of the series, but its quality leaves much to be desired. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 26, 2021

"Dark Phoenix" feels rushed, as if Kinberg wanted to cram two, maybe three, movies into one while Disney was busy gobbling up the studio and all of its intellectual properties.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2021

If this is to be the final film in its current incarnation, it's an unfortunate end to characters that essentially started the movie superhero boom.

| Feb 18, 2021

Despite the pyro on display Dark Phoenix doesn't catch fire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The action sequences, though well done, aren't enough to shift the tides of this lukewarm superhero film bumbling in the dark for meaning, understanding, and, ultimately, closure.

| Jan 28, 2021

The music by Hans Zimmer is a huge improvement over the last several X-Men chapters.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2020

The X-Men franchise limps to a conclusion with this lifeless entry that finds director Simon Kinberg in over his head.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 20, 2020

The spectacle is entertaining, up to a point, but even the digital wizardry wears thin, and Dark Phoenix turns into a standard-brand miasma of explosions, collisions and swirling force fields.

| Nov 11, 2020