... Jennifer Lawrence is superb as the young blue-skinned shape-changer Mystique, trying to reconcile her identity crisis with Xavier’s sometimes oblivious idealism.

| Sep 9, 2023

A summer movie where audiences will leave talking about the performances and the ideas, not the mindless battles.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2023

This is an immensely fun, engaging, stylish superhero film that I fully recommend for your viewing pleasure.

| Feb 11, 2022

"X-Men: First Class" crafts this engaging story, spy-film look, and retro style with enough action and tricks to impress those still looking for a comic book movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2021

The acting, special effects, and writing were excellent, except possibly the two times Xavier tries to hit on women in bars by saying they have "groovy mutation[s]".

| Jan 7, 2021

The oftentimes explosive action sequences can't mask the silliness and pointlessness of many of the newly introduced mutants.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 30, 2020

A smarter and more stylish superhero movie.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

If you're looking for a well-made popcorn movie to see in theaters, let this one be it.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 6, 2020

As summer entertainment, it has speed and energy accompanied by amazing visual effects, charismatic characters and the evident style of Vaughn. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 24, 2020

A filmmaker whose impeccable career I have nothing to object to... but that here, for many different reasons, doesn't quite materialize. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 22, 2020

Worst of all, the movie doesn't even look that great for all the money that went into it.

| Original Score: 2.9/5 | Nov 7, 2019

For all its mythology, X-Men would still be highly entertaining for newcomers to the story.

| Jul 26, 2019

A smartly written and tightly plotted summer blockbuster with the gumption and drive to feature fully fleshed out characters, remarkably realized by a solid cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

After a sour film closing out the original trilogy, X-Men: First Class is a return to greatness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 3, 2019

This is a smart and entertaining film, able to transcend the comic book genre and evolve into a good Cold War thriller.

| May 8, 2019

First Class can safely be watched by first-timers, but old faithfuls of the franchise will get a little more, tracing the origins of their favourite characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2019

An extraordinary blast from the past, X-Men: First Class will go down as one of this decade's best superhero movies.

| Jan 19, 2019

McAvoy and Fassbender are two very talented men, who have created characters of their own, while staying true to the originals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Although X-Men: First Class is not the best film of its kind, it certainly does its genre justice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2018

What's most remarkable about First Class, the fifth in the series of X-Men films, is that it's the first one since the original that inspires a want for more.

| Nov 6, 2018